{"product_id":"9780889201033","title":"Annibal Caro, the Scruffy Scoundrels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scruffy Scoundrels\u003c\/i\u003e by Annibal Caro offers the student, scholar, and general reader a sixteenth-century masterpiece in modern English translation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one vantage point, \u003ci\u003eThe Scruffy Scoundrels\u003c\/i\u003e would appear to be no more than a series of unrelated scenes and sketches grouped around a highly conventionalized and loosely structured love plot: the arrival of Pilucca and Tindaro in Rome abounding in topical references; the appearance of the two ragged brothers so arbitrarily related to the rest of the events of the play; the love squabble between two servants that leads to Nuta’s memorably comic invective; the stock farcical routines of the Mirandola episodes; the long pathetic tale of Tindaro so little of which actually takes place on the stage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a sense, however, in which each scene contains its own ethos and milieu and hails from a particular comic genre, each with its own \u003ci\u003etopoi\u003c\/i\u003e and character types. This efficient management of plot is simply a measure of Caro’s comic genius. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009255522544,"sku":"9780889201033","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889201033_p0.jpg?v=1763844107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889201033","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}