Through a wealth of documentary evidence it is possible to show how Dickens' farcical plays owe their inventiveness and structural plotting to such dramatic sub-genres as the burla, burletta, or to melodrama (opera and operetta), but mostly to the old canovacci of the Commedia dell'Arte.
The Italian influence in the plays of Charles Dickens
SEVERI, Rita
2009-01-01
Abstract
Through a wealth of documentary evidence it is possible to show how Dickens' farcical plays owe their inventiveness and structural plotting to such dramatic sub-genres as the burla, burletta, or to melodrama (opera and operetta), but mostly to the old canovacci of the Commedia dell'Arte.
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