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

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

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.

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

A similar line of influence was Carlo Goldoni's 1747 play I due gemelli veneziani (" The two Venetian twins ") ( also adapted as The Venetian Twins in 1979 ).

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 importance lay in providing good examples rather than precepts.

Goldoni's main characters are no abstract examples of human virtue, nor monstrous examples of human vice.

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.

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.

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 characters are often superficial, but he wrote lively dialogue.

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.

Staggeringly condensed versions of famous novels and famous plays were presented.

Agathon was also the first playwright to write choral parts which were apparently independent from the main plot of his plays.

In 1957, Ayckbourn married Christine Roland, another member of the Library Theatre company, and indeed Ayckbourn's first two plays were written jointly with her under the pseudonym of " Roland Allen ".

In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in Cosmopolitan that his plays were becoming autobiographical: " If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started.

There are two to three plays organized by TACIT per year, and they were involved in the production of the PHD Movie, released in 2011.

In any case, Goldoni was deeply interested in theatre from his earliest years, and all attempts to direct his activity into other channels were of no avail ; his toys were puppets, and his books, plays.

Some of these plays were later adapted into silent and sound films.

Mystery plays were sometimes performed in cathedrals, and cathedrals might also be used for fairs.

While the Browns excelled on defense, Cleveland's winning ways were driven by an offense that employed Brown's version of the T formation, which emphasized speed, timing and execution over set plays.

Another rule change banned " mass momentum " plays ( many of which, like the infamous " flying wedge ", were sometimes literally deadly ).

Alternatively, it is identified with the " tree of paradise " of medieval mystery plays that were given on 24 December, the commemoration and name day of Adam and Eve in various countries.

It is possible that the Maccabean Martyrs were commemorated in some early French plays or that people just associated the book ’ s vivid descriptions of the martyrdom with the interaction between Death and its prey.

According to another comic poet, Teleclides, the plays of Euripides were co-authored by the philosopher Socrates.

Aeschylus and Sophocles were innovative, but Euripides had arrived at a position in the " ever-changing genre " where he could move easily between tragic, comic, romantic and political effects, a versatility that appears in individual plays and also over the course of his career.

Other tragedians also used recognition scenes but they were heroic in emphasis, as in Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers, which Euripides parodied with his mundane treatment of it in Electra ( Euripides was unique among the tragedians in incorporating theatrical criticism in his plays ).

In the seventeenth century, Racine expressed admiration for Sophocles but was more influenced by Euripides ( e. g. Iphigenia at Aulis and Hippolytus were the models for his plays Iphigénie and Phèdre ).

The textual transmission of the plays from the fifth century BC, when they were first written, up until the era of the printing press, was largely a haphazard process in which much of Euripides's work was lost and corrupted, but it also included triumphs by scholars and copyists, thanks to whom much was also recovered and preserved.

The plays of Euripides, like those of Aeschylus and Sophocles, were circulated in written form in the fifth century among literary members of the audience and performers at minor festivals, as aide-memoirs.

Similar editions had appeared for Aeschylus and Sophoclesthe only plays of theirs that survive today: " The rise of Goths and Tartars throughout the Roman world from the gutter to the throne, the destruction of libraries by choleric and fanatical popes and emperors, were unfavourable to the progress but not entirely fatal to the preservation of literary studies.

Both the playwright and his work were travestied by comic poets such as Aristophanes, the known dates of whose own plays thus serve as a terminus ad quem for those of Euripides, though sometimes the gap can be considerable ( e. g. twenty-seven years separate Telephus, known to have been produced in 438 BC, from its parody in Thesmophoriazusae in 411 BC!

Very few true bluffs really work in the long run ; the bluffer usually has some kind of strength to his or her hand, but plays the hand as if it were higher than it really is.

The general American tendency was to simplify the plots borrowed from novels and plays so that they could be dealt with in one reel and with the minimum of titling and the maximum of straightforward narrative continuity, but there were exceptions to this.