Goldoni
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The Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni famously depicted them as quarrelsome, if good-hearted simpletons, getting into brawls for trivial reasons.
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2022
The first one, last week, was the celebrated 2012 “One Man, Two Guvnors,” a raucous farce set in the swinging ’60s and based on an 18th-century play by Carlo Goldoni.
From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2020
Grillo had just finished a performance at the Goldoni Theater in Livorno.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2018
His fortunes changed dramatically when he won the lead in One Man, Two Guvnors, a rollicking update by Richard Bean of the 18th-century Carlo Goldoni comedy The Servant of Two Masters.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2012
It aimed at being a comedy of character; and thus Goldoni hoped by gradual steps to wean his actors from their bad old ways.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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