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Goldoni: v. 1

Goldoni: v. 1 Paperback / softback - 1999

by Carlo Goldoni

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Paperback / softback. New. This collection of plays by Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni includes the plays Mirandolina and The Housekeeper. Both are comedies about women surviving in a man's world. All plays here are translated by Scottish playwright Robert David MacDonald and were produced at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.
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  • Title Goldoni: v. 1
  • Author Carlo Goldoni
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 188
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oberon Books, London
  • Date 1999-12-31
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9781870259484
  • ISBN 9781870259484 / 1870259483
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.11 x 5.51 x 0.39 in (20.60 x 14.00 x 0.99 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 852

About the author

Robert David MacDonald (1929 - 2004) was born in Elgin, Scotland. After originally training as a musician, he worked as a Director, Playwright and Translator. As an Assistant Director, he worked at both the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and for the Royal Opera House. In 1971, he became Co-Artistic Director of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, where he directed fifty plays and wrote fifteen for the venue before his retirement in 2003. The plays that he wrote for the Glasgow Citz include The De Sade Show (1975), Chinchilla (1977), Summit Conference (1978), also seen in the West End with Glenda Jackson and Gary Oldman, A Waste of Time (1980), Don Juan (1980), Webster (1983), Britannicus (2002) and Cheri (2003). As a translator, MacDonald translated over seventy different plays and opera from over ten different languages including The Threepenny Opera, Tamerlano, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, The Marriage of Figaro, Orpheus and The Human Voice, Conversation at Night, Shadow of Angels, The Balcony, The Government Inspector, Tasso, Faust I and II, Ibsen's Brand and Hedda Gabler, Lermontov's Maskerade, Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, Moliere's School for Wives and Don Juan, Pirandello's Enrico Four, Racine's Phedre, Schiller's Mary Stuart, The Maid of Orleans and Don Carlos, Chekhov's The Seagull, Verne's Around the World In Eighty Days, Wedekind's Lulu and Goethe's Clavigo. His adaptation of War and Peace ran for two seasons on Broadway and received an Emmy award when shown on U.S television. The Finborough Theatre has previously presented Robert David MacDonald's versions of Rolf Hochhuth's Soldiers (2004) and The Representative (2006)