The Crisis
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Scholars of modern Italian drama and literature
- Theater readers with intermediate to advanced Italian
- Viewers interested in late nineteenth-century European realist drama
- Theater practitioners looking for one-act or small-cast plays to stage
Not a good fit for
- Beginners with weak Italian who rely on translations and notes
- General readers who prefer light, entertaining reading
- Readers seeking a detailed Chinese introduction and background annotations
Reading tips
- Before reading, familiarize yourself with late nineteenth-century Italian society and family morality to better grasp the conflicts.
- Read act by act, and after finishing try to summarize each act's central conflict and the characters' positions.
- Compare it with other Italian realist plays to observe Praga's approach.
- If staging it, read the whole play first, then mark key lines and stage directions.
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About the author
Marco Praga (1862–1929) was an Italian playwright and drama critic, born in Milan and died in Varese, and the son of the poet Emilio Praga. A representative figure of Italian realist theatre, he is best known for Le vergini (1889) and La moglie ideale (1890), and he also took part in writing the libretto for Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut. Three of his works are held in this collection: the three-act comedy La moglie ideale, the four-act comedy Le vergini, and La crisi. Public information on his life and career is limited; judging from the titles held, his plays focus chiefly on family ethics and relations between the sexes, examining through a realistic lens how social convention suppresses personal feeling, with natural dialogue and a well-knit structure. They exercised a certain influence on Italian bourgeois drama at the end of the nineteenth century.
