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The Servant of Two Masters, Carlo Goldoni
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Carlo Goldoni

The Servant of Two Masters

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.
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122 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • Duru Gönültaşhas quoted3 months ago
    SMERALDINA. Dear mistress, what would you do? All men are cruel, more or less. They demand absolute fidelity from us, and on the slightest suspicion, they torment us, abuse us, and like as not see us to our graves. But you’ve got to marry one or other of them
  • Duru Gönültaşhas quoted3 months ago
    Nonsense, that’s typical of women, you’re making it up.
  • Duru Gönültaşhas quoted3 months ago
    e were all like you, we certainly would. As my old mother used to say: it’s the men that cause the shame, and the women get the blame. People say women are unfaithful, but with men it’s one infidelity after another. Women get talked about, but nobody says a word about men. We get criticised, and you get away with murder. And d’you know why? Because it’s men who make the laws. If it was women, it’d be a different story. If I was in charge, I’d make every unfaithful man carry a tree branch – and all the towns would look like forests! (Goes out.)

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