The Servant of Two Masters

From: The Village Voice | Date: January 10, 2007| Author: Beer, John | Copyright information

The Servant of Two Masters

By Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Anne and Stuart Vaughan

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18th-century farce with a cross-dressing heroine and a radical message

Carlo Goldoni's 1745 comedy The Servant of Two Masters marked a sea change in Italian theater. Tossing out masks and improvisation, Goldoni sought to infuse a new psychological realism into commedia dell'arte's anarchic humor and...

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