01421 a2200313 4500 1902653246 20250317100411.0 250312042001GB eng 9781902653242 Taylor & Francis GBP 49.99 BB 01 eng AB thema ATD thema DSG thema AB bic AN bic DSG bic LIT013000 bisac FOR000000 bisac LAN000000 bisac 852.6 bisac Maggie Gunsberg Playing with Gender The Comedies of Goldoni 1 Oxford Routledge 20011201 282 p This work takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni (1707-93). The dramatization of femininity and masculinity is explored in conjunction with that of other social categories (class, the family, and age). The plays reinforce the patriarchal association of femininity with the body, with spectacle, and with theatricality, while the dramatic backdrop of Venice and carnival provides a context for the staging of issues relating to identity, disguise and fashion. In the plays, pretence and theatricality vie with bourgeois Enlightenment values of morality, honesty and respectability to produce dramatic tension with distinct gender implications. 2309 2309