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- Title
Quest'è la letra: From Lyric Parody to Modern Tragedy in Ruzante's Venice.
- Authors
Rudavsky-Brody, Nathaniel
- Abstract
Paduan playwright Angelo Beolco, alias Ruzante, wrote against a vibrant tradition of dialect parody lyric and popular verse theater in the Veneto region. Yet in a pair of darkly comic one-act plays, the Due dialoghi in lingua rustica , Beolco pushes beyond his comic roots to reach new depths of tragic seriousness. Though in prose, the Dialoghi should be read as responding to the corpus of dialect poetry; when the humorous tension between the peasant speaker and his high poetic form is confronted with social and economic reality, tragedy is born. Comparison with another gem of Paduan literature, the Alfabeto dei villani , sheds light on the significance of Beolco's breakthrough. There, parody creates lyric, allowing a true poetic subject to emerge from the limbo of those refused entrance into the economy of salvation and self.
- Subjects
VENICE (Italy); VENETO (Italy); PARODY; COMEDIANS; SOCIAL reality; ONE-act plays; PEASANTS; POETRY (Literary form); DIALECTS
- Publication
MLN, 2024, Vol 139, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0026-7910
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mln.2024.a930284