Il servitore di due padroni

aka Arlecchino servitore di due padroni

The Servant of Two Masters

Author

Carlo Goldoni

Language

Italian

Year

1745

Country

Italy

Genre

Drama / Theatre / Plays

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0

The Servant of Two Masters is a comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni written in 1746. Goldoni originally wrote the play at the request of actor Antonio Sacco, one of the great Harlequins in history. His earliest drafts had large sections that were reserved for improvisation, but he revised it in 1789 in the version that exists today. The play draws on the tradition of the earlier Italian commedia dell'arte.