LA SCHIAVA IO CE L’HO E TU, NO (MY DARLING SLAVE)

1. Successful comedy, broad farce, Italian comedy and its qualities?

2. The effect of the structure: flashbacks, marriage, mistress, slave?

3. The characteristics of the Italian hero: male, comic, his work, ambition, relationship with women? Ease for audiences to identify with him?

4. The portrayal of the wife: marriage, rushed, modern, impersonal, mod clothes, taking in the orphans etc.?

5. The contrast with the mistress: her style, flirting, rendezvous, pretended suicide?

6. The humour of the Amazon scheme? The comedy in Brazil?

7. The transformation and westernization of the girl? The comedy inherent in this?

8. The change in Palermo's society? reactions to the slave?

9. The attitude of the law, the hero's demonstration in the streets?

10. The permit and seeking permission: the Bishop and his death?