For Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), theater was a fabulous world apart, in which human beings, statues, and animals change places by magical transformations. Gozzi's stage becomes a multiscenic home for adventures, loves, enmities, and dazzling visual effects. This collection brings together for the first time modern English translations of five of Gozzi's most famous plays: " The Raven, The King Stag, Turandot, The Serpent Woman," and "The Green Bird," each annotated by the translators and preceded by the author's preface. Ted Emery's Introduction places Gozzi in his social and historical...