Three Comedies (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Three Comedies Voltaire, with his unerring critical faculty, called Goldoni 'the Italian Moliere, " and the Jim two great dramatic writers are similar in imagination, spontaneity, knowledge of human nature, and the ability to draw the lighter side of life with brilliance and accuracy. The Italian playwright was born in Venice, February 25, 1707. His family was well-to-do, and he was brought up in the household of his grandfather, who had a strong taste for theatrical and operatic entertainments, and continually had this sort of amusement going on under his own roof. While Carlo was a mere lad, the grandfather died, leaving his affairs in bad condition. No property remained but the dowry of the youths mother, and with this the family removed to Perugia, where the father studied medicine, and finally became a successful physician. Carlo attended school, and wrote little sketches and plays for his fellow-students, playing the female roles in them himself. He was so enamored of this amateur theatrical experience that he ran away from school to go with a company of strolling players, but he soon returned from this escapade, and studied first medicine, and then law with an uncle in Venice. Here he found theaters, however, and was again fascinated with the stage, and with dramatic literature, into which he plunged deeply in a library where he spent much time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.