The Servant of Two Masters

The Servant of Two Masters
"I'd like to see how I'll manage to serve two masters." Illustration from The Complete Comedies of Carlo Goldoni (1830)
Written by	Carlo Goldoni
Date premiered	1746
Original language	Italian, Venetian
Genre	Commedia dell'arte

The Servant of Two Masters (Italian: Il servitore di due padroni) 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.^[1] The play draws on the tradition of the earlier Italian commedia dell'arte.