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In British slang, “guvnor” means master, especially of a social inferior. To be a Servant of Two Masters, as Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni titled his 1746 comedy, is to be doubly distressed, particularly if the servant faces dire consequences if either master learns of the other. In One Man, Two Guvnors, his 2011 adaptation of Goldoni’s Il servitore […]