Don Gaston or mirror of true friendship
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| Title: | Don Gaston or mirror of true friendship |
| Original title: | Don Gastone di Moncada |
| Genus: | play |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Author: | Giacinto Andrea Cicognini |
| Publishing year: | 1658 |
| Premiere: | 1641 |
| Place of premiere: | Florence |
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Don Gaston or mirror of true friendship (original title: Don Gastone di Moncada ) is a three-act play in prose by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini . The Italian original was premiered in 1641 by a professional troupe in the Teatro di Baldracca in Florence.
Templates and tradition
The oldest version has been handed down in Cicognini's handwriting under the title Il gran traditore con la più constante tra le maritate and is related to a performance by the Florentine Academy of Instancabili in 1642. Cicognini's work also processed Spanish dramas in Don Gaston , for example by Pedro Calderón de la Barca ( Gustos y disgustos son no más que imaginación ), Lope de Vega ( La corona merecida ) and Tirso de Molina ( Cómo han de ser los amigos ). A posthumous Venetian print from 1658 states on the title page that it is a "scenic and moral" work. The melodramatic mixture of gruesome, sentimental and comic scenes, which ultimately postulate marital and friendly fidelity as the highest value, has given the piece a performance history of around a hundred years in German-speaking countries from 1659. The play text manuscript Mirror of True Friendship , which is kept in the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, has been preserved from the traveling troop play, which is often played under changing titles .
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Duke Don Gaston lives happily on a rural property with his wife Donna Violanta, their son and servants. But one day the king of Arragonia, decried as a tyrant and womanizer, roams through this territory on a hunt and sees Donna Violanta, whom he immediately desires. Because his negotiator in love affairs returns with a slap in the face instead of arranging a poo, he resorts to other means. He forces Don Gaston and his family to live at court, while at the same time, along with Don Meriches, he gives Don Gaston's friend a court position. Don Meriches now gets into a conflict of conscience because the king uses him as a tool for his wrongdoings. So he has to expel his friend of the country, the still steadfast Violanta, threatening the murder of the five-year-old son and serving his heart and blood to the desperate couple as their last meal together. But he wins the queen over to the decisive intrigue by leading it to the king, disguised as Violanta. When the king notices the deception, the queen defends herself with a moral sermon that has an effect. Don Pedro shows himself purified; and that Don Meriches ultimately showed loyalty to his friend Don Gaston is evident to all. The son he supposedly murdered is also still alive.
Special performances
Sigmund von Birken mentions in his diary that he saw this piece in Nuremberg in 1667 . In the diary of Duke Ferdinand Albrecht I of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, however, a performance in Bevern Castle by Johannes Velten's troupe on October 12, 1680 was mentioned. In addition to the cast, you can learn here that the elector Karl I Ludwig (Palatinate) was shocked by the performance of this piece because he imagined that one of his morganatic marriages would have been brought onto the stage with it.
literature
- Giacinto Andrea Cicognini: Il Don Gastone di Moncada. Opera scenica, e morale del Dottor GA Cicognini . Per Nicolò Pezzana, Venezia 1658.
- Diego Símini: Il corpus teatrale di Giacinto Andrea Cicognini. Opere autentiche, apocrife e di dubbia attribuzione . (Studi & testi. Collana del Dipartimento di Lingue e letterature straniere dell'Università del Salento, 46) Pensa multimedia, Lecce u. a. 2012. ISBN 978-88-8232-951-8
- Flavia Cancedda; Silvia Castelli: Per una bibliografia di Giacinto Andrea Cicognini. Successo teatrale e fortuna editoriale di un drammaturgo del Seicento . (Secoli d'oro, 24) Alinea, Firenze 2001. ISBN 88-8125-512-X
- Fausta Antonucci: Spunti tematici e rielaborazione di modelli spagnoli nel Don Gastone di Moncada di Giacinto Andrea Cicognini . In: Maria Grazia Profeti (Ed.): Tradurre, riscrivere, mettere in scena . (Commedia aurea spagnola e pubblico italiano, vol. 2) (Secoli d'oro, vol. 3) Alinea, Firenze 1996, pp. 65-84. ISBN 88-8125-062-4
Web links
- Game handwriting mirror of true friendship in the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe: Title recording
- Don Gaston or mirror of true friendship . In: thespis.digital . Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna. August 8, 2016 (performance history dates)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicola Michelassi; Salomé Vuelta García: Il Teatro Spagnolo in Firenze nel Seicento . Alinea, Florence 2013, ISBN 978-88-6055-786-5 , p. 108 .
- ↑ Diego Simini: Il corpus teatrale di Giacinto Andrea Cicognini . Pensa multimedia, Lecce et al. a., ISBN 978-88-8232-951-8 , pp. 67 .
- ↑ Diego Simini: Il corpus teatrale di Giacinto Andrea Cicognini . Pensa multimedia, Lecce et al. a. 2012, ISBN 978-88-8232-951-8 , pp. 68 .
- ^ Giacinto Andrea Cicognini: Il Don Gastone di Moncada. Opera scenica, e morale del Dottor GA Cicognini . Per Nicolò Pezzana, Venezia 1658.
- ↑ Bärbel Rudin: The text library of the Eggenberg court comedians in Ceský Krumlov / Bohemian Krumau (1676–1691) . In: Jill Bepler; Helga Meise (Ed.): Collecting, reading, translating as courtly practice in the early modern period . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06399-9 , pp. 86-90 .
- ↑ Bärbel Rudin: The text library of the Eggenberg court comedians in Ceský Krumlov / Bohemian Krumau (1676–1691) . In: Jill Bepler; Helga Meise (Ed.): Collecting, reading, translating as courtly practice in the early modern period . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06399-9 , pp. 89 .
- ^ Paul Zimmermann: Duke Ferdinand Albrechts I of Braunschweig and Lüneburg theatrical performances in the castle of Bevern . In: Yearbook of the history association for the Duchy of Braunschweig . tape 3 , 1904, pp. 146 .