Boccaccio’s Untold Tale TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text FLORIO [convulsively]<br><br> You were the glory of the world, Olivia!...<br><br> And now ... your beauty ... that is ... dead ... will always be ...<br><br> to me ...<br><br> The glory of ... the world!... forever and forever!...<br><br>OLIVIA<br><br> Oh, if you could but see my ugliness--<br><br> I think there's nothing like it in the world!<br><br> O God, why did I not die an hour ago!<br><br>VIOLANTE [crazed anew with jealousy]<br><br> Florio, Florio--Olivia lies!<br><br> Her beauty floods the very room with light--<br><br> You are deceived most horribly!<br><br>OLIVIA<br><br> Command that woman hence;<br><br> She is the source and cause of all our ill.<br><br>FLORIO<br><br> What does this mean? My soul is sick to death!<br><br>VIOLANTE<br><br> I tell you, Florio, that she lies to you.<br><br> [To Lizzia.]<br><br> Tell him the truth, old woman, and beware,<br><br> As you have fear of Hell, belief in God,<br><br> And hope of Heaven, to perjure not your soul!<br><br>LIZZIA [at first frightened and irresolute, then quietly determined.]<br><br> God help me--she is surpassingly--ugly!<br><br> [Returning Violante glare for glare.]<br><br> Her ugliness--!<br><br> [Breaking down, she goes to altar and drops on knees before it.]<br><br> COMMENTS: Visual Text CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: BoccacciosUntoldTale.pdf
