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''[[Il Servitore di due Padroni]]'' ("The Servant of Two Masters") is a comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Goldoni]

== The original text ==

Written in 1746. Early drafts have large sections reserved for improvisation, but the 1753 revision has become the standard text.

==Translations and adaptations==

The play has often been translated and performed in English, usually under the title ''[[Servant of Two Masters]]'' (see for example ''[[Servant of Two Masters]]'' in [[Wikipedia]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_Two_Masters]).

Also translated and adapted into English as '''''[[The Hotel, or The Double Valet]]''''', a farce in two acts by Thomas Vaughan, Thomas (fl. 1772-1820)[], originally performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane in 1776, and published by T. Becket,1776. Vaughan apparently based his play not only on Carlo Goldoni's farce, but also on ''[[Arlequin Valet de Deux Maitres]]'', a standard piece from the Italian commedia dell'arte, regularly performed by the Comédie Italienne in Paris.

Vaughan's play was in turn adapted as '''''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]''''', a farce in two acts, by Robert Jephson (1736-1803)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jephson]. Jephson's version was originally performed in Ireland at Smock Alley under the title ''[[The Hotel, or The Servant with Two Masters]]'' in 1783 and printed in Cork. It was first performed in London at the Theatres Royal, Covent Garden and the Drury Lane as ''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]'' in 1791. Printed in London for C. and G. Kearsley,1791.

In his study [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1928) wrongly attributes authorship of ''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]'' to the actor Andrew Cherry, who had played the character "Lazarillo" in the Drury Lane production.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1818: Performed as ''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]'' in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] on 7 November, as a benefit for [[Mrs Brough]], with ''[[The Will]]'' (Reynolds).

1823: Performed as ''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]'' by the [[Garrison Players|Amateur Company]] as a benefit for [[Mrs Green]], in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town on 25 November 1823; with ''[[Wild Oats]]'' by O'Keeffe.

1824: Performed as ''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]'' in the [[African Theatre]] on 24 July by the [[Garrison Players]], along with ''[[John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside]]'' (Colman Jr).

== Sources ==

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_Two_Masters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Goldoni

''Two strings to your bow'': a farce, in two acts, as now performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, with distinguished applause. By Robert Jephson, Esq. at http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/4239 via http://writersinspire.org/content/two-strings-your-bow-farce-two-acts-now-performed-theatre-royal-covent-garden-distinguished. Accessed on Friday, June 24, 2016.

''The hotel: or, the double valet''. A farce, in two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Thomas Vaughan, Esq. at http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/3999 via http://writersinspire.org/content/hotel-or-double-valet-farce-two-acts-it-performed-theatre-royal-drury-lane-thomas-vaughan. Accessed on Thursday, June 23, 2016.

Facsimile version of the 1806 published text by John Cawthorn, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=MbULAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=Robert+Jephson+Two+Strings+to+your+Bow&source=bl&ots=grob4nhl64&sig=mmH7ARI5glRvLgeE6hQgOcAHSBY&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFtcWVk8HNAhVCD8AKHQp4DJcQ6AEILjAD#v=onepage&q=Robert%20Jephson%20Two%20Strings%20to%20your%20Bow&f=false]

David Erskine Baker. 1812. ''Biographia Dramatica: Or, A Companion to the Playhouse'', Volume 2. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown: p. 310 - Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=HQQyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA310&lpg=PA310&dq=The+Hotel+or+Double+Valet+Vaughan&source=bl&ots=RICvqxImQl&sig=7ruspJqSPI6-sevsHKmnlqjD5Ao&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPtK2WmsHNAhXBChoKHaU8CKk4ChDoAQgpMAM#v=onepage&q=The%20Hotel%20or%20Double%20Valet%20Vaughan&f=false]

Asier Altuna Garciá de Salazar. 2008 “Robert Jephson, Anglo-Ireland, A Spanish Lazarillo of Valencia and the farcical recourse to food in Two Strings to Your Bow (1791)” in ''Odisea'' No 9. [https://books.google.co.za/books?id=4k3kCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=The+Hotel+or+Double+Valet+Vaughan&source=bl&ots=Uqm1aPybH8&sig=NBrtcj37D9JlZTvGtJoHj9mPrJs&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiE04msl8HNAhVJDsAKHbd5DhAQ6AEIUzAJ#v=onepage&q=The%20Hotel%20or%20Double%20Valet%20Vaughan&f=false]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jephson

[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 155, 185

Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]

== Return to ==

Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]

Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]

Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]

Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]

Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]

Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]

Return to [[Main Page]]

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−	~~(In Italian sources the title is found as ''[[Il servitore di due padroni]]'')~~
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−	~~== The original text ==~~
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−	~~Written in Venice in 1745 and apparently first performed in Milan in 1749. Early drafts have large sections reserved for improvisation, but the 1753 revision has become the standard text.~~
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−	~~==Translations and adaptations==~~
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−	The play has often been translated and performed in English, usually under the title ''[[Servant of Two Masters]]'' (see for example ''[[Servant of Two Masters]]'' in [[Wikipedia]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_Two_Masters]).
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−	Also translated and adapted into English as '''''[[The Hotel, or The Double Valet]]''''', a farce in two acts by Thomas Vaughan, Thomas (fl. 1772-1820)[], originally performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane in 1776, and published by T. Becket,1776. Vaughan apparently based his play not only on Carlo Goldoni's farce, but also on ''[[Arlequin Valet de Deux Maitres]]'', a standard piece from the Italian commedia dell'arte, regularly performed by the Comédie Italienne in Paris.
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−	Vaughan's play was in turn adapted as '''''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]''''', a farce in two acts, by Robert Jephson (1736-1803)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jephson]. Jephson's version was originally performed in Ireland at Smock Alley under the title ''[[The Hotel, or The Servant with Two Masters]]'' in 1783 and printed in Cork. It was first performed in London at the Theatres Royal, Covent Garden and the Drury Lane as ''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]'' in 1791. Printed in London for C. and G. Kearsley,1791.
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−	In his study [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1928) wrongly attributes authorship of ''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]'' to the actor Andrew Cherry, who had played the character "Lazarillo" in the Drury Lane production.
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−	~~== Performance history in South Africa ==~~
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−	~~1818: Performed as ''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]'' in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] on 7 November, as a benefit for [[Mrs Brough]], with ''[[The Will]]'' (Reynolds).~~
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−	1823: Performed as ''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]'' by the [[Garrison Players\|Amateur Company]] as a benefit for [[Mrs Green]], in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town on 25 November 1823; with ''[[Wild Oats]]'' by O'Keeffe.
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−	~~1824: Performed as ''[[Two Strings to your Bow]]'' in the [[African Theatre]] on 24 July by the [[Garrison Players]], along with ''[[John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside]]'' (Colman Jr).~~
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−	~~== Sources ==~~
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−	~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_Two_Masters~~
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−	~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Goldoni~~
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−	''Two strings to your bow'': a farce, in two acts, as now performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, with distinguished applause. By Robert Jephson, Esq. at http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/4239 via http://writersinspire.org/content/two-strings-your-bow-farce-two-acts-now-performed-theatre-royal-covent-garden-distinguished. Accessed on Friday, June 24, 2016.
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−	''The hotel: or, the double valet''. A farce, in two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Thomas Vaughan, Esq. at http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/3999 via http://writersinspire.org/content/hotel-or-double-valet-farce-two-acts-it-performed-theatre-royal-drury-lane-thomas-vaughan. Accessed on Thursday, June 23, 2016.
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−	Facsimile version of the 1806 published text by John Cawthorn, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=MbULAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=Robert+Jephson+Two+Strings+to+your+Bow&source=bl&ots=grob4nhl64&sig=mmH7ARI5glRvLgeE6hQgOcAHSBY&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFtcWVk8HNAhVCD8AKHQp4DJcQ6AEILjAD#v=onepage&q=Robert%20Jephson%20Two%20Strings%20to%20your%20Bow&f=false]
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−	David Erskine Baker. 1812. ''Biographia Dramatica: Or, A Companion to the Playhouse'', Volume 2. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown: p. 310 - Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=HQQyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA310&lpg=PA310&dq=The+Hotel+or+Double+Valet+Vaughan&source=bl&ots=RICvqxImQl&sig=7ruspJqSPI6-sevsHKmnlqjD5Ao&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPtK2WmsHNAhXBChoKHaU8CKk4ChDoAQgpMAM#v=onepage&q=The%20Hotel%20or%20Double%20Valet%20Vaughan&f=false]
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−	Asier Altuna Garciá de Salazar. 2008 “Robert Jephson, Anglo-Ireland, A Spanish Lazarillo of Valencia and the farcical recourse to food in Two Strings to Your Bow (1791)” in ''Odisea'' No 9. [https://books.google.co.za/books?id=4k3kCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=The+Hotel+or+Double+Valet+Vaughan&source=bl&ots=Uqm1aPybH8&sig=NBrtcj37D9JlZTvGtJoHj9mPrJs&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiE04msl8HNAhVJDsAKHbd5DhAQ6AEIUzAJ#v=onepage&q=The%20Hotel%20or%20Double%20Valet%20Vaughan&f=false]
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−	~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jephson~~
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−	~~[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 155, 185~~
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−	~~Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]~~
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−	~~== Return to ==~~
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−	~~Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]~~
−
−	~~Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]~~
−
−	~~Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]~~
−
−	~~Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]~~
−
−	~~Return to [[South_African_Festivals\|South African Festivals and Competitions]]~~
−
−	~~Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]~~
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−	~~Return to [[Main Page~~]]

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 == The original text ==
-Written in Venice in 1745. Early drafts have large sections reserved for improvisation, but the 1753 revision has become the standard text.
+Written in Venice in 1745 and apparently first performed in Milan in 1749. Early drafts have large sections reserved for improvisation, but the 1753 revision has become the standard text.
 ==Translations and adaptations==