l'avrai

Updated: May 28, 2025

There is nothing in the modern drama more rhetorically impressive, though spasmodic, than the well-known dialogue between Antigone and Creon: 'Cr. Scegliesti? 'Ant. Ho scelto. 'Cr. Emon? 'Ant. Morte. 'Cr. L'avrai! Goldoni's comedies, again, have not enough of serious thought or of true creative imagination to be works of high art.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series