Carlo Goldoni
An image from National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors, one of the productions that also features Carlo Goldoni.
Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Goldoni

February 25, 1707 — Venice, Italy

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (1707–1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title 'Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade', which, so he claimed in his memoirs, the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed upon him.

Goldoni took to himself the task of superseding the Commedia dell'Arte by representations of actual life and manners through the characters and their behaviors. He rightly maintained that Italian life and manners were susceptible of artistic treatment such as had not been given them before. His works are a lasting monument to the changes that he initiated: a dramatic revolution that had been attempted but not achieved before.

Miranda

Miranda

1985

Truffaldino from Bergamo

Truffaldino from Bergamo

1977

La locandiera

La locandiera

1980

National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors

National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors

2011

Sluha dvou pánů

Sluha dvou pánů

2001

The Boors

The Boors

1960

Innkeeper

Innkeeper

1956

The Coffee House

The Coffee House

1970