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Carlo Goldoni was the greatest Italian playwright of the 18th century. Giorgio Strehler was the greatest Italian director of the 20th century. Their 'collaboration,' when Strehler chose on several occasions to direct Goldoni's comedy The Servant of Two Masters, produced exciting theatrical events. Scott Malia's well-informed and insightful account of Strehler's varying interpretations of the play not only provides detailed context for these legendary productions. It also opens out to larger questions of the reconstruction of a director's work, its meaning to its original audiences, and the historical factors that govern artistic creation. Given the current popularity of One Man Two Guvnors, an updating of Goldoni's plays, Malia's study is remarkably timely. -- Laurence Senelick, Tufts University

Carlo Goldoni was the greatest Italian playwright of the 18th century. Giorgio Strehler was the greatest Italian director of the 20th century. Their 'collaboration,' when Strehler chose on several occasions to direct Goldoni's comedy The Servant of Two Masters, produced exciting theatrical events. Scott Malia's well-informed and insightful account of Strehler's varying interpretations of the play not only provides detailed context for these legendary productions. It also opens out to larger questions of the reconstruction of a director's work, its meaning to its original audiences, and the historical factors that govern artistic creation. Given the current popularity of One Man Two Guvnors, an updating of Goldoni's plays, Malia's study is remarkably timely. -- Laurence Senelick

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Scott Malia is an assistant professor of theatre at College of the Holy Cross who specializes in Italian and GLBTQIA theater.

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