Verismo was established in the early 1880s by Luigi Capuana and Giovanni Verga from Sicily and roughly paralleled the development of realism and naturalism in other European countries at the time. / Theatre history survey texts list Marco Praga, Giuseppe Giacosa and Roberto Bracco as the major verist playwrights in Italy between 1890 and 1915. Treatises that study verismo in greater depth usually add Gerolamo Rovetta to complete the roster. But two women verismo playwrights have apparently become obscured by the passage of time: Amelia Rosselli and Teresa Ubertis. / This marginalization against women's artistic achievements by male-dominated historians fell under increasing scrutiny in the 1980s. It seemed as if inherited societal and cultural prejudices had buried women's artistic works in the dustbin of history; the unearthing of these works subsequently became a scholarly pursuit. / Amelia Rosselli wrote five full-length plays and four shorter plays. She also published several books of poems and short stories. Her first play, Anima, which won first place in a national competition, and her second play Illusion are verismo works arguably as significant and representative as the more famous male-authored plays. / Teresa Corinna Ubertis, also known as Teresah, wrote six plays, five books of poetry, fourteen children's books and thirteen novels, including one co-written with her husband E. M. Gray, between 1902 and 1925. The Judge, Ubertis' first and most well-known play, was produced and directed by the famous Italian actor Ermete Zacconi, who brought Ibsen to the attention of the Italian public. / In this dissertation, characters in the Rosselli and Ubertis verismo plays are compared and contrasted with characters in A Doll House and An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, and Maternity by Eugene Brieux, to determine if the verismo plays reveal a different perspective from that of the male-authored plays that might be due to a uniquely female point of view. / Passages from the author's translations of Anima, Illusion and The Judge are contained in the dissertation to contribute to the analysis of the plays and demonstrate the artistry of these marvelous but forgotten scripts. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: A, page: 2490. / Major Professor: Stuart E. Baker. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77486 |
| Contributors | Scozzari, Frank., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 160 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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