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Commedia dell’arte also incorporates strenuous physical arts to explore love, lust and the struggle of youth against old age, says Thomas Simpson, a professor in the French and Italian department.
Commedia dell’arte (16th and 17th century Italy): This early form of improvisational theater employed masks to signify recurring stock characters like Pantalone (the greedy old fool with a bony ...
History of commedia dell’arte Commedia dell’arte can be traced back to the Atellan Farces of Rome in 300 B.C. It became especially popular during the Renaissance, and would ultimately be used ...
Written by David Kaye and Evan Russel, this hysterical piece features all the traditional beloved masks of commedia dell'arte: Arlecchino, Colombina, Brighella, Pantalone – just to mention a few.