The Jester's Supper (play)

The work is inspired by a short story from Antonio Francesco Grazzini's Le Cene (I, 3).

In 1910 Sara Bernhardt played in "La Beffa" (adapted by Jean Richepin) the role of Gianetto Malespini.

In 1919 the play was put on in New York City, under the name The Jest, at Broadway's Plymouth Theatre.

The play was the basis for an opera La cena delle beffe composed by Umberto Giordano with a libretto written by Benelli himself.

In 1942 the play was adapted as a film, The Jester's Supper, directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Osvaldo Valenti.

Lionel Barrymore and John Barrymore in the 1919 Broadway production of The Jest