Word: liar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia, Ireland, Scandinavia, South America, and France, nothing is more natural than that the Dramatic Club should turn toward Italy. The somewhat austere interior of Brattle Hall will be transformed for a few hours this evening into a bit of old Venice, when Carlo Goldini's comedy "The Liar", is produced in its first American revival...
...Liar" is not the first play of Italy's foremost comedy-writer, Goldoni (1707-1793), to be brought before University audiences in recent years. Professor K. McKenzie's translation of "Il Ventaglio" ("The Fan") was produced some years ago with success by the Yale Dramatic Club, and a playbill of "Mirandolina"--as Lady Gregory has entitled her version of "La Locandiera"--has just come to hand from Oxford...
...theme of the constitutional liar, temporarily staving off detection by fresh falsehoods, but in the end hopelessly enmeshed in the network of his deceptions, was handled in masterly fashion more than a century before Goldoni by Corneille in "Le Menteur". In contrast to the French author's dignified verse-comedy, Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" ("The Liar") is often broadly farcical...
Lelio, the liar, son of the old Venetian merchant Pantalone, seeking adventure, encounters Beatrice and Rosaura. Addressing his attentions to the latter, he passes himself off as a wealthy Neapolitan noble and declares himself responsible for serenade, gift and poem. Meeting Ottavio, he boasts not only of serenading the girls, but of having dined with them in their house. Shocked at Beatrice's levity, Ottavio informs her father that he can no longer entertain thoughts of marriage...
...gradual clearing of the complications and misunderstandings resulting from the exuberant mendacity of Lelio occupies the remainder of the comedy, which, after the final discomfiture of the liar, ends with his none too convincing resolution to devote himself henceforward to the truth...