The Horned Owl: (L’Assiuolo)

By Giovan Maria Cecchi and Konrad Eisenbichler

Giovan Maria Cecchi (1517–1587) was the most prolific and popular of sixteenth-century Florentine daramatists. His best-known play, L’Assiuolo (The Horned Owl), brings to the stage the amorous adventure of two students at the university of Pisa who fall in love with the same married lady. Through a servant’s ruse they both succeed in gratifying their senses and in establishing a love affair that will see them through their undergraduate career.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Release date: Jan 1, 2006
• ISBN: 9780889208636

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Reviews for The Horned Owl

[devil_llama · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A charming piece, similar in style and tone to many pieces of the time. The wise servant helps the master who has fallen in love with another man's much younger wife. The old man keeps her locked up tightly with a loyal and vicious servant to guard her. It takes all the wits of a servant to figure out how to breach the barricades and cuckold the old man under his nose, while he stands out in the yard hooting like an owl (the horned owl of the title). Cheeky and bawdy, easy to read, but it takes some work at first to keep the characters straight, as they all have similar names.

[quantum_flapdoodle · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A charming piece, similar in style and tone to many pieces of the time. The wise servant helps the master who has fallen in love with another man's much younger wife. The old man keeps her locked up tightly with a loyal and vicious servant to guard her. It takes all the wits of a servant to figure out how to breach the barricades and cuckold the old man under his nose, while he stands out in the yard hooting like an owl (the horned owl of the title). Cheeky and bawdy, easy to read, but it takes some work at first to keep the characters straight, as they all have similar names.