“Moschetta”, last act

Abstract

The recent and excellent edition of the most famous Ruzante’s comedy, curated by Luca D’Onghia, offers, among other things, a text restored and free of dense didactic remark with which it was always read to analyze it or to stage, since the sixties of last century and since the edition of Ludovico Zorzi. Written for four hands, the present work moves in two directions: on the one hand it reconstructs the history of this didactic interpolation, bearer not only of interpretation but of a real rewrite and secondly it wants to return to original text, coming to propose a conclusion of the play completely different from what was supposed to be and from what was view on stage.