Servant of Two Masters; The Cunning Widow; The Innkeeper

Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) was a prominent Italian playwright, a reformer of 18th-century European theater, and one of the founders of the classic comedy of the modern era. He liberated the stage from the conventions of the old commedia dell'arte, replacing masks with living characters, improvisation with a well-thought-out plot, and formulas with observations of real life and human psychology. T...