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The Servant of Two Masters

Truff. Now I'm going to do my work prope...

Overview

Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act Three, Scene One
Time & Place
A private room inside an inn in Venice during the mid-18th century, cluttered with open trunks.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

Context

Text

Truff. Now I'm going to do my work properly, in peace and quiet with no one to worry me. [Takes a key out of his pocket.] Now which key is this, I wonder? which trunk does it fit? Let's try. [Opens one trunk.] I guessed right at once. I'm the cleverest man on earth. And this other will open t'other trunk. [Takes out second key and opens second trunk.] Now they are both open. Let's take everything out. [He takes all the clothes out of both trunks and puts them on the table. In each trunk there must be a black suit, books and papers, and anything else ad lib.] I'll just see if there is anything in the pockets. You never know, sometimes they leave biscuits or sweets in them. [Searches the pockets ofBeatrice's suit and finds a portrait.] My word, what a pretty picture? There's a handsome man! Who can it be? A queer thing, I seem to know him, but yet I can't remember. He is just the least little bit like my other master; but no, he never wears clothes like that, nor that wig neither.

Goldoni, Carlo, The Servant of Two Masters, 1746, https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/goldonident-twomasters/goldonident-twomasters-00-h.html

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