The Theatre of Angelo Beolco (Ruzante): Text, Context and Performance. By RONNIE FERGUSON. Ravenna: Longo. 2000. 253 pp. 25.82 [euro]. ISBN 88-8063-259-0.
More than any other anglophone critic, Ronnie Ferguson has helped correct Richard Andrews's trenchant 1993 observation (in his Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p. 143) that Ruzante has been the 'great unapproachable' of Italian Renaissance playwrights ...