Synopsis
Mirandolina & The Housekeeper
$21.99 Carlo Goldoni trans Robert David MacDonald
Published by Oberon
Two comedies about women surviving precariously in a man's world
by Italy's great eighteenth-century writer ...
Mirandolina believes open dealing is essential; Valentina (The Housekeeper) wants to have her cake and eat it and uses intrigue to further her interests
Both are eager to win some kind of equality and both almost come to grief