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Imitations would continue to do for generations following this play. Once again, if indirectly, PlautusĬontributed to Ferrara carnival festivities, as vernacular Plautine (vernacular comedy based on Roman models), La Cassaria, acted at Ferrara Menaechmi thus figures prominently in the backgrounds that led toĪriosto's writing the first widely recognized commedia erudita Who would himself later translate Menaechmi, though his version is lost. Its audience included, among theĮntourage of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, the boy Ludovico Ariosto, The Ferrara entertainment of 1486 also helped initiate a new How and why thisĬomedy, among the twelve-or twenty in all-acquired such widespreadįavor during the sixteenth century has not as yet formed the subject of Have read the play, much less witnessed it, at school. The "new" playsĭid not become widely available until the first printed edition of theĬomedies in 1472, though manuscript copies had circulated. Twelve hitherto unknown comedies by Plautus. Part of the manuscript discovery by Nicholas of Cusa, about 1428, of Theatrical venture-would have been its relative unfamiliarity, being Occasion-both celebrating the Este-Gonzaga union and inaugurating a (4) Certainly one reason for choosing Menaechmi for this Some ten thousand spectators saw Ferrara's first Menaechmi Theatre at that date." (3) We may find it difficult to believe that Tuohy observes, "suggests the preeminence of the d'Este Productions to the Sforza court in Lomhardy, an event which, as Thomas In all, betweenġ4 Ercole had an active role in presenting at least fourteenĭifferent plays by Plautus and Terence. In fact, took a lead in the staging of Roman comedy. Sforza, daughter of the duke of Milan, as one of three plays on
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The festivities for the marriage of young Alfonso d'Este and Anna (2) Enthusiasm sparked another performance of this play at Menaechmus arriving in a galley with a sail, while the residentīrother's city was realistically represented and painted in theīackground. Piacevole" reports that the production showed the traveling (1) AĬontemporary chronicler, describing the play as "beletissima e Mistaken identity appears, more significantly, to have been the firstĬlassical comedy so presented in vernacular translation. Publicly performed play in Ferrara, this lively comedy of twins and Holiday events, the staging of Plautus's Menaechmi. Thousands witnessed, with fireworks and other I's carnival entertainments honoring Francesco Gonzaga, betrothed Theater occurring at Ferrara on 25 January 1486, with Duke Ercole Consider, for example, that watershed in the history of European Instance of the Menaechmi contribution to drama, that play deserves toīe seen as part of a larger picture of European, including English,Ĭomedy. If The Comedy of Errors remains, for English speakers, the supreme
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MLA style: "Menaechmi and the Renaissance of comedy." The Free Library.