l plurilinguismo nelle opere teatrali del commediografo molisano Antonio Angelone
Plurilingualism in the Comedies of Molisan Playwright Antonio Angelone

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses plurilingualism in the dialect comedies of Molisan playwright Antonio Angelone. After a brief biographical sketch of the author, the rich, expressive, and authentic dialect spoken by his protagonists from the peasant class is analysed. Furthermore, essential details and examples pertaining to Angelone’s keen awareness of the challenges of writing in dialect are provided. The most fundamental part of this essay focuses on the plurilingual aspects that—certainly not extraneous to literary production in Italy—fully manifest themselves in Angelone’s comedies; this occurs through characters created by a playwright who excels at highlighting how important it is to employ linguistic varieties adapted to the circumstances and needs of the protagonists to make the theatrical experience more authentic and more credible for the reader/viewer. Along with the dialect or dialects, there are examples of Standard Italian, popular Italian, and italiese, or the language of North-American Italians, in the repertoire of the protagonists, pronounced by characters who belong to different generations, who are from different social classes, and who come from different geographical areas.

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