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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 is actually Beatrice, Rasponi's sister who is
in disguise as her brother and has come to Venice to find her
suitor, Florinda. Complications arise when a servant greedily seeks
employment with both the disguised Beatrice and Florinda and spends
the rest of the play trying to serve two masters while keeping the
two unaware of the other's presence.
The play is based on the Italian Renaissance theatre style,
"Commedia dell'arte," and reinvigorated the genre, which is so
heavily based on carnival, while bringing to it an element of
realism, mishaps, mix-ups, confusions, disguises and mistaken
identity that come with the style.
In this new, rapid fire adaptation by award winning dramatist
Lee Hall, the language has been updated to now in order to give the
action the fast-paced feeling of a Christmas pantomime.
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A
classic Italian comedy that remains blisteringly hilarious and
relevant, over two hundred and fifty years after it was written.
Disguising herself as her dead brother, Beatrice travels to Venice
to find Florindo, the man responsible for his death. However, her
servant, Truffaldino, enters into the pay of Florindo, and
struggles to keep his two lives and masters separate. Carlo
Goldoni's play The Servant of Two Masters (Il servitore di due
padroni) was written in the 1740s, though later revised by its
author. It draws on the tradition of Italian commedia dell'arte.
This English version in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series
is translated by Stephen Mulrine.
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, social and political context, and on
the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well
a list of suggested reading, questions for further study and a
review of performance history.
The play revolves around the wily, greedy servant Truffaldino,
who in trying to fill both his purse and his stomach, attempts to
serve two masters simultaneously. Meanwhile, his mistress disguises
herself as her dead brother to claim the dowry from his bewildered,
bereft fiancee. The plot is full of mishaps and mix-ups,
confusions, disguises and mistaken identity, before the murder and
entangled romances can be resolved.
Lee Hall's contemporary, faithful version is fast-paced, funny and
idiomatic. Updating the comedy for the reader and audience, this
version is thoroughly accessible, whilst also portraying the plot's
tricks and absurdities with comic flair.
Carlo Goldoni (1707-1792) supo tomar de la tradicion italiana de la
comedia del arte sus mejores elementos, que hizo evolucionar y
adapto a nuevas circunstancias. Las tres obras seleccionadas son
las mas vivas e interesantes del autor; la mas famosa de ellas, la
posadera, ha tenido una presencia constante en los escenarios.
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