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  • Goldoni: Volume One

    Translated by Robert David MacDonald ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Carlo Goldoni (1707 – 1793) was one of the most prolific and versatile playwrights of his century, even though most of his vast output deals with life confined to a few square miles of Northern Italy. This new edition contains two comedies about women surviving precariously in a man's world, but each taking a distinctly different approach to her problems. Mirandolina believes open dealing is ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Five Comedies

    by Carlo Goldoni ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell’arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) wrote more naturalistic “comedies of character” that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice.Five Comedies collects a selection of Goldoni’s finest plays, annotated and translated into English: The New House, The Coffee House, ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Venetian Social Satire and the Reform of Eighteenth-Century Italian Drama

    The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni, edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern, presents a representative encounter with the dramatist who reformed eighteenth-century Italian theatre. Moving away from the masked improvisations of commedia dell'arte, Goldoni's plays cultivate lucid dialogue, social observation, and carefully shaped character. Their domestic intrigues, mercantile households, clever ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • National and Regional Parliaments in the EU-Legislative Procedure Post-Lisbon

    The Impact of the Early Warning Mechanism

    Much has changed in European constitutional law after the Lisbon Treaty, not least the efforts to increase democratic legitimacy by engaging national legislatures and introducing a stricter subsidiary review process, namely the Early Warning Mechanism (EWM).This collection looks at how national parliaments have adapted to their new roles and looks at how the new system has impacted on relations ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution

    Series series Cambridge Law Handbooks
    Despite a long and venerable tradition, the material constitution almost disappeared from constitutional scholarship after the Second World War. Its marginalisation saw the rise of a normative and legalistic style in constitutional law that neglected the role of social reality and political economy. This collection not only retrieves the history and development of the concept of the material ... Read more

    $150.99 USD

  • Jurisprudence

    Themes and Concepts

    Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence courses.The book is organised in three parts: Part I sets out the key elements of modern law and their relation to political, economic, and social conditions. Part II presents competing accounts of the nature of legal validity, legality, legal reasoning, and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Hannah Arendt and the Law

    Series series Law and Practical Reason
    This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law. Often obscured by more pressing or more controversial aspects of her work, Arendt nonetheless had interesting insights into Greek and Roman concepts of law, human ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Constitution in the Material Sense

    Translated by Marco Goldoni ...
    Series series Law and Politics
    The Constitution in the Material Sense, first published in 1940, is a classic of constitutional thought of the 20th century, and it is widely considered to be the masterpiece of Constantino Mortati, a towering figure in Italian jurisprudence and one of the ‘founding fathers’ of the Italian constitution.The book, published here in English for the first time, puts forward a full-fledged theory of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Goldoni: Two Plays

    The Venetian Twins; Mirandolina

    by Carlo Goldoni ...
    Translated by Ranjit Bolt ...
    Series series Oberon Classics
    In the year of the bicentenary of the death of Carlo Goldoni, one of Italy’s most brilliant dramatists, two of his greatest comedies are brought to life in Ranjit Bolt’s vibrant translations.The Venetian Twins is a classic tale of mistaken identity and the ensuing confusion. The play was given its premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company in a production directed by Michael Bogdanov which enjoyed ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Materiality of the Legal Order

    by Marco Goldoni ...
    Series series Elements in Philosophy of Law
    This Element aims to explore how the relation between societal organisation and legal orders – the question of materiality – has been investigated in philosophy of law. The starting point of the Element is that such relation has often been left invisible or thematised in poor and reductive terms. After having explained the main reasons behind this neglect, the Element provides an overview of the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern

    Enriched edition. Venetian Comedy and Social Satire: A Collection of Classic Works

    In "The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni," edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern, readers are introduced to the transformative works of one of Italy's most celebrated playwrights. Goldoni's comedies marked a significant departure from the traditional commedia dell'arte, favoring character-driven narratives and realistic dialogue over the improvisational style of his predecessors. This collection ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goldoni: Volume Two

    by Carlo Goldoni ...
    Translated by Robert David MacDonald ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Carlo Goldoni was Italy's greatest playwright of the eighteenth century and wrote at least one hundred and fifty plays, although only a handful; of these have been performed since his time. Working for theatres in both Venice and Paris, he took much of his inspiration from 'commedia dell'arte'.This collection focuses on Goldoni's more serious side and includes the plays Don Juan, Friends and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD