PLAYS
Notes:
- Plays marked "Carnival season" were produced between
December 26 of the preceding year and Shrove Tuesday of
the given year.
- Plays marked "autumn season" were produced from the
first week in October to December 15 of the given
year.
- Plays marked "summer" were produced on the mainland
during the summer, when the Venetian theatres were
closed.
- Legend: "2 masks" refers to the number of masked
characters (from the commedia tradition) in the
cast.
- Legend "Martellian verse" means that the metric form
used is one originated by Pier Iacopo Martelli, a poet
and a contemporary of Goldoni. It stems from the
Alexandrine of medieval French, having fourteen
syllables.
- "Sdruccioli verse" is a form in which the accent of
each verse is on the antepenultimate syllable.
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