Five Comedies collects a selection of Goldoni’s finest plays, annotated and translated into English: The New House, The Coffee House, and “The Holiday Trilogy” (Off to the Country, Adventures in the Country, and Back from the Country.

Preface: Carlo Goldoni (Massimo Ciavolella and Luigi Ballerini)
Chronology
Introduction: The Theatrical Machine of Carlo Goldoni (Michael Hackett)
The New House
Coffee House
The Holiday Trilogy: Three Comedies
Off to the Country
Adventures in the Country
Back from the Country
Afterword: Goldoni Our Contemporary (Cesare De Michalis)

Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) was a leading eighteenth-century Venetian playwright.