The Servant of Two Masters: As adapted by Lance Davis

by Carlo Goldoni, Lance Davis

The servant Truffaldino must please two masters in 18th Century Venezia. Comedy, disguise, passion and a sandwich. Clarice is in love with Silvio, but thanks to Pantalone must marry Federigo who is really Beatrice in disguise, who is in love with Florindo, who killed Beatrice's brother Federigo in a duello. As performed by Parson's Nose Theater, a professional company devoted to "short form" productions of classic comedies, in Pasadena, California. 80 minutes. 10 characters.

87 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 10, 2018

About the author

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title "Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade," which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.