by Carlo Goldoni · Reclam, Ditzingen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783150099278
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«Der Diener zweier Herren / Il Servitore di due Padroni» is Carlo Goldoni's bilingual comedy published by Reclam in paperback (216 pages).
The action takes place around an arranged wedding and follows a servant who, to earn more money, agrees to serve two masters at once. His cunning allows him to sustain the deception for a while, but the lies pile up and he ends up forced to hide each master's existence from the other, with increasingly difficult entanglements to maintain.
Comedy in three acts and in prose, originally published in 1745; bilingual Italian-German edition, number 9927 in the Reclam collection.
Suitable for students of Italian or German who want to compare the two texts and for readers interested in eighteenth-century classical theatre.
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade, which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.
