Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-262).
One essay is in Italian.
Introduction / Joseph Farrell -- i. La Presenza di Goldoni nel Teatro di Carlo Gozzi / Alberto Beniscelli -- ii. Marivaux's La Fausse Suivante and Goldoni's La bottega del caffe as Physical Theatre / Guy Callan -- iii. Leandro Fernandez de Moratin: The Society of the Word / David Johnston -- iv. Goldoni and Women: Female Characters and Their Social Background in Four Dialect Comedies / Emanuela Cervato -- v. The Angel in the House, or Virtue Punished / Maggie Gunsberg -- vi. Goldoni's Women: Widows and Wiles / Deirdre O'Grady -- vii. Linguistic Etiquette in Eighteenth-Century Venice and Rules of Address in Carlo Goldoni / Arturo Tosi -- viii. Goldoni and Modena / Andrew Wilkin -- ix. Goldoni's Venetian Twins Whose side is the audience on? / Richard Andrews -- x. Citizen Goldoni? Reform, Rebellion and the Enigma of Il feudatario / xi. Goldoni's Libretti for Opera Seria / Costantino Maeder -- xii. Goldoni Antiquario / Paolo Puppa