As in other theatrical works of the time and place, the characters in Goldoni's Italian comedies spoke originally either the literary Tuscan variety ( which became modern Italian ) or the Venetian dialect, depending on their station in life.

Goldoni's characters are often superficial, but he wrote lively dialogue.

" Goldoni's plays are gentler and more optimistic in tone than Molière's.

Goldoni's importance lay in providing good examples rather than precepts.

Galuppi composed the score for more than twenty of Goldoni's librettos.

As with his comedies, Goldoni's opera buffa integrate elements of the Commedia dell ' arte with recognisable local and middle-class realities.

Goldoni's plays that were written while he was still in Italy ignore religious and ecclesiastical subjects.

The following is a small sampling of Goldoni's enormous output.

* Goldoni's collected works.

* Sample texts from Juan del Encina, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Carlo Goldoni's L ' Impresario da Smyrna, Diego de Haedo and other sources.

As well as his general contribution to the essentials of comic opera, establishing the music as at least as important as the words, Galuppi's ( and Goldoni's ) more specific legacy to comic opera was the large-scale buffo finale to end the acts.

Le donne curiose ( English: The Inquisitive Women ) is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana after Carlo Goldoni's play.

I quatro rusteghi ( The Four Curmudgeons, sometimes given as School for Fathers ) is a comic opera in three acts, music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana and Giuseppe Pizzolato based on Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century play I rusteghi.

British critic Sir Christopher Frayling identifies three principal sources for A Fistful of Dollars: " Partly derived from Kurosawa's samurai film Yojimbo, partly from Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest ( 1929 ), but most of all from Carlo Goldoni's eighteenth-century play Servant of Two Masters.

He claims a thematic debt, for both Fistful and Yojimbo, to Carlo Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters — the basic premise of the protagonist playing two camps off against each other.

In 1990, Bell founded the theatre company Bell Shakespeare and has produced, among others, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, Pericles, Henry IV, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, King Lear, and Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters.

Thorton Wilder's Our Town gave Jones the idea of using a narrator, the staging of Carlo Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters provided the concept of having actors sit stage-side when not acting, and John Houseman's production of The Winter's Tale and Leonard Bernstein's Candide suggested the use of sun, moon, frozen action, and incidental music.

* Directs Goldoni's " Servant of two Masters " for the Festival in Friesach.

* Directs Goldoni's " Venetian Twins " at the Ensemble Theatre in Vienna.

* Directs Goldoni's " Servant of Two Masters " at the Stadttheater Aachen.

Goldoni's dramatic aptitude is illustrated by the fact that he took nearly all his types from Venetian society, yet managed to give them an inexhaustible variety.

His father and mother were both actors, and Tommaso first appeared when he was barely fourteen as Pasquino in Goldoni's Donne curiose.

The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play Il matrimonio per concorso of 1763.

One of the main characters of the 1969-1971 animated cartoon The Ant and the Aardvark is a blue aardvark voiced by John Byner, doing an impersonation of Jackie Mason.

* In PS 238, Atlas is a famous superhero and the father of one of the main characters

Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.

Many archaeological sites are visited along the way and one of the main characters is an archaeologist, Signor Richetti.

While the other main characters believe there is no rational explanation for the outbreak of plague, Paneloux believes there is.

It is assumed that players will portray the children of the main characters from the books-the ruling family of Amber, known as the Elder Amberites-or a resident of the Courts.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

* The British Empire of The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling features a massive water powered engine at Oxford, used by two of the main characters.

He is among the main characters of the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis ( b. 1920 ).

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

With the ruse thus revealed, the main characters run for their lives, resulting in a madcap chase across the stage with both Miles and Senex pursuing all three " Philia " s ( Domina, Hysterium, and the actual Philia — all wearing identical white robes and veils ).

This outline is based on main sections and antagonist characters in the Book of Alma.

The two main sections also mirror the first two antagonist characters, Nehor ( religious agenda ) and Amlici ( political agenda ).

Cervantes was a gambler, and the main characters of his tale Rinconete y Cortadillo, from Novelas Ejemplares, are a couple of cheats working in Seville.

The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

These themes are played out in the stories of the three main characters, Samuel, Saul and David.

A weak character that is located between two strong characters with a different writing direction, will inherit the main context's writing direction ( in an LTR document the character will become LTR, in an RTL document, it will become RTL ).

For example The Kid is thought to reflect Chaplin's own childhood trauma of being sent into an orphanage and the main characters in Limelight ( 1952 ) are thought to contain elements from the lives of his parents.

* Shree 420 and Awaara main characters are heavily influenced by The Tramp.

A number of strips have featured animals (' funny animals ') as main characters.

On TV shows based in Chicago such as The Bob Newhart Show, Married ... with Children, Family Matters, Still Standing, According to Jim, Early Edition and The Bernie Mac Show, the main characters are all Bears fans, and have worn Bears ' jerseys and t-shirts on some occasions.

The Epiplectic Bicycle opens with two illustrations of the main characters playing with croquet mallets.

The Rovers Return Inn is the main meeting place for the show's characters.