Autorialità multiple, contese, condivise: a proposito del "Padre di famiglia"

This study discusses how the tradition of dramatic texts can record the dynamics and the inner tensions of the concept of ‘authorship’, as this essay engages with a ‘case study’, focusing on a work by Carlo Goldoni, that is Il padre di famiglia. These inner tensions run through and actually reveal the ‘texture’ hidden in the very fibers of the ever-present metamorphism which is typical of dramatic ‘texts’ (that is, may-be the only type of texts where the glorious ex metaphor of the text as texture can still shine); moreover, such tensions shed light on the thick weaving of debts and credits that are intertwined in the spatial and temporal ‘crossings’ that take place in a dramatic text.