A Curious Mishap - A Comedy in Three Acts

by Rolf Mcewen

Overview

"Painter and son of nature," wrote Voltaire, at that time the arbitrator and the dispenser of fame in cultured Europe, to Carlo Goldoni, then a rising dramatist. "I would entitle your comedies, 'Italy liberated from the Goths.'" The sage of Ferney's quick critical faculty had once again hit its sure mark, for it is Goldoni's supreme merit, and one of his chief titles to fame and glory, that he released the Italian theatre from the bondage of the artificial and pantomime performances that until then had passed for plays, and that, together with Molière, he laid the foundations of the drama as it is understood in our days.
Indeed, Voltaire, in his admiration for the Venetian playwright, also called him "the Italian Molière," a comparison that is more accurate than such comparisons between authors of different countries are apt to be, though, like all such judgments, somewhat rough and ready.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161052495
Publisher:	Ralph McEwen
Publication date:	11/20/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	105 KB

About the Author

Rolf McEwen is a writer, editor, and photographer. He has created hundreds of books of photographs, paintings, and drawings, as well as dozens of adult coloring books. He has written plays including The Honeymoon, Mad Love, Inspector Strangelove, Love Will Find a Way, The War, The Joseph Story, Esther the Queen, The Institute, and The Fan. He created adaptations for Moliere plays such as The Miser, The Middle-Class Gentleman, Tartuffified, Deceits of Samson, Ladies of Learning, and The Hypochondriac. He wrote a how-to book regarding theatre arts programs entitled How to Build a Drama Program, describing how to create a successful and financially profitable high school drama program.

His sense of humor is apparent in a coffee-table book about how to cope with a boring job--Survival Tactics for Office Workers. A book of witty proverbs provides a humorous touch to advice about sex in Teen Sexuality--A Humorous Guide Book. He wrote a collection of romantic poems entitled Amazing World, and provided helpful financial advice in How to Create Wealth--A Book of Wit and Wisdom.

He has created photo books including Tripping through Oregon, Oregon Coast Drawings, Hawaii Pencil Drawings, Mediterranean Travel Drawings, Sketch Art, Portland Images - Travel Photos of Oregon, Salem Images, Seattle Images, Travel Hawaii - A Photo Montage, Corvallis Oregon - A Photo Story, Albany Oregon - A Photo Story, Dramatic Images, Images Black and White, Explosion of Color, Flower Wave, Urban Art, Ballet in Waves, Dance Images - Beautifully Distorted, Flowers of Paper, Flower Shower - Colored Pencil Drawings, Portland Colored Pencil Drawings, Seattle Images in Colored Pencil, and Light Wave - Fluid Photos.

McEwen earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Puget Sound and a Master of Education degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. He studied art, architecture, music, and history in Rome and Vienna, and traveled throughout Europe.