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This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a commentary on... Read Full Overview

This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters , features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a commentary on the dramatic,... Read Full Overview

Goldoni's eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of love, passion, and mistaken identity. Young Venetian Clarice can't marry her lover, Silvio. She had been betrothed to Rasponi, who appears to have returned from the dead to claim her. But the Rasponi who appears... Read Full Overview

Goldoni's eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of love, passion, and mistaken identity. Young Venetian Clarice can't marry her lover, Silvio. She had been betrothed to Rasponi, who appears to have returned from the dead to claim her. But the Rasponi who appears... Read Full Overview

Dorothy Louise's adaptation uses contemporary language to involve actors and audiences in Carlo Goldoni's great classic commedia dell'arte play. Plays for Perfomance Series.

THE STORY: A cross between traditional Italian commedia and postmodern vaudeville, this new version of Goldoni's classic pits the madcap servant Truffaldino against masters, mistresses, lovers, lawyers and twenty-seven plates of meatballs. Imagine

Troverai, Lettor carissimo, la presente Commedia diversa moltissimo dall'altre mie, che lette avrai finora. Ella non di carattere, se non se carattere considerare si voglia quello del Truffaldino, che un servitore sciocco ed astuto nel medesimo tempo ci rappresenta: sciocco... Read Full Overview

First published in 1952, this is the second edition of a volume which was originally published in 1928. The text contains an English translation of The Servant of Two Masters, one of Goldoni's most celebrated comedies. An introduction and notes on production are also provided... Read Full Overview

'There are so many servants looking for a master and I have found two Yay. What the hell do I do now? I can't serve both, can I?'

Hungry servant Truffaldino bites off more than he can chew when he agrees to serve two masters at the same time Now he must hold everything... Read Full Overview

Silvio wants to marry Clarice who has to marry Signor Federigo who's really Beatrice in disguise who's come to Turin to find her love Florindo and the whole sorry mess is about to get a whole lot sorrier when Florindo and Beatrice both unknowingly hire the same servant-the... Read Full Overview

A Christmas pantomime with an Italian accent from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic Company

Il servo da due padroni una delle commedie italiane pi famose di tutti i tempi. Scritta da Carlo Goldoni nel Settecento, la commedia offre una satira pungente della societ del tempo, attraverso le avventure e i malintesi del servo Truffaldino. Con il suo linguaggio vivace... Read Full Overview

Carlo Goldoni: Der Diener zweier Herren. (Il servitore di due padroni)

Die Prosakom die um das Doppelspiel des Dieners Truffaldino, der dumm und schlau zugleich ist, ist Goldonis erfolgreichstes B hnenwerk und darf als H hepunkt der Commedia dell'arte... Read Full Overview

Troverai, Lettor carissimo, la presente Commedia diversa moltissimo dall'altre mie, che lette avrai finora. Ella non di carattere, se non se carattere considerare si voglia quello del Truffaldino, che un servitore sciocco ed astuto nel medesimo tempo ci rappresenta: sciocco... Read Full Overview

Il servo da due padroni ? una delle commedie italiane pi? famose di tutti i tempi. Scritta da Carlo Goldoni nel Settecento, la commedia offre una satira pungente della societ? del tempo, attraverso le avventure e i malintesi del servo Truffaldino. Con il suo linguaggio vivace... Read Full Overview