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MIRANDOLINA

MIRANDOLINA. CARLO GOLDONI. Read Mirandolina and focus on: The outline of the plot Main themes of the play The characters’ actions, behavior and language The Cavaliere’s position regarding women Mirandolina’s challenge to this position

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MIRANDOLINA

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  1. MIRANDOLINA CARLO GOLDONI

  2. Read Mirandolina and focus on: • The outline of the plot • Main themes of the play • The characters’ actions, behavior and language • The Cavaliere’s position regarding women • Mirandolina’s challenge to this position • How Mirandolina wins the Cavaliere’s attention (from Act I, scene XXIII to Act II, scene IX + scene XIV) • Function of actors and actresses in the play (Act II, scene X-XIII) Goldoni’s critique of the theater? • Mirandolina’s victory (Act II, scene XVII-XVIII) • Mirandolina’s refusal of the Cavaliere’s present (Act III, scene II-III) • The “Ironing” scenes (IV-VII) The Cavaliere’s final defeat • Mirandolina’s resolution (Act III, scene XIII)

  3. Act III, scene XVII: a social critique? • Act III, scene XVIII, turn of events, Mirandolina’s defeat? (concealing as woman’s virtue?) • Have the Cavaliere and Mirandolina changed (Act III, scene XVIII-last scene) • The social classes presented in the play • Mirandolina as representative of a social class • Mirandolina as a female character • Mirandolina’s values • Love and marriage in Mirandolina • Goldoni’s artistry in presenting his characters • Goldoni’s critique of Venetian society • The values of the new society according to Goldoni • The world as theater in Goldoni • The theater as didactic tool in Goldoni • Reason and enlightenment in Mirandolina

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