| Title | : | The Servant of Two MastersActing Edition |
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| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 72 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2002 |
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.
The Servant of Two MastersActing Edition Reviews
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Not the translation I read which was by Stephen Mulrine and was a straightforwardly accessible version of this play. It was fun to compare with the 2011 updated version by Richard Bean, One Man, Two Guvnors.
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Classic comedia del arte. Crazy, fun, and kinda dumb.
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So much fun!
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boring!! i think what we learned here is commedia dell'arte really doesn't need to be written down.
