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Commedia dell'arte

Index Commedia dell'arte

(comedy of the profession) was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italy, that was popular in Europe from the 16th through the 18th century. [1]

119 relations: Adam Darius, Aesthetics, Aminta, Andrea Calmo, Ariadne auf Naxos, Ash Wednesday, Atellan Farce, Ballet d'action, Bavarian State Library, Ben Jonson, Brighella, Capriccio (art), Carlo Goldoni, Carlo Gozzi, Carnival, Clown, Columbina, Comédie larmoyante, Comédie-Italienne, Così fan tutte, Costumes in commedia dell'arte, Courage, Don Giovanni, Encyclopædia Britannica, Epiphany (holiday), Fabula palliata, Flaminio Scala, Francesco Andreini, Franz Kafka, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Casanova, Giacomo Puccini, Giambattista Andreini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, Giuseppe Verdi, Harlequin, Harmony, Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, House of Medici, Humanism, I Gelosi, Igor Stravinsky, Il Capitano, Il Dottore, Improvisation, Improvisational theatre, Innamorati, Interpolation (music), Invective, ..., Isabella Andreini, Italian Renaissance, Italy, Jacques Callot, Janus, Jealousy, Jean-Antoine Watteau, L'elisir d'amore, La Signora, Lazzi, Louis XIV of France, Love, Madrigal, Madrigal (Trecento), Mannerism, Molière, Naples, Niccolò Barbieri, Nick Hern Books, Old age, Opera buffa, Pablo Picasso, Pagliacci, Palace of Fontainebleau, Pantalone, Pantomime, Pedrolino, Petrushka (ballet), Pied Piper of Hamelin, Pierre Beaumarchais, Pierre de Marivaux, Pierrot, Plautus, Pulcinella, Pulcinella (ballet), Punch and Judy, Richard Strauss, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Sandrone, Scapin the Schemer, Scapino, Scaramouche, Scenario, Sex, Sketch comedy, Slapstick, Steven Berkoff, Stock character, Tartaglia (commedia dell'arte), Terence, The Love for Three Oranges, The Marriage of Figaro, The Metamorphosis, The Servant of Two Masters, The Tempest, Theatre, Theatrical property, Three Musicians, Torquato Tasso, Town square, Tristano Martinelli, Turandot (Gozzi), Vagrancy, Vanitas, Vecchio, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zan Ganassa, Zanni. Expand index (69 more) »

Adam Darius

Adam Darius (10 May 1930 – 3 December 2017) was an American dancer, mime artist, writer and choreographer.

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

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Aminta

Aminta is a play written by Torquato Tasso in 1573, represented during a garden party at the court of Ferrara.

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Andrea Calmo

Andrea Calmo (1510 in Venice – 1571) was an Italian actor and author (dramatist) of Commedia dell'Arte, and one of the pioneers of this type of masked theater, as created for the 16th century Venetian audience.

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Ariadne auf Naxos

(Ariadne on Naxos), Op. 60, is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday is a Christian holy day of prayer, fasting and repentance.

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Atellan Farce

The Atellan Farce (Latin: Atellanae Fabulae or Fabulae Atellanae, "favola atellana"; Atellanicum exhodium, "Atella comedies"), also known as the Oscan Games (Latin: ludi Osci, "Oscan plays"), were masked improvised farces.

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Ballet d'action

Ballet d’action is a hybrid genre of expressive and symbolic ballet that emerged during the 18th century.

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Bavarian State Library

The Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, abbreviated BSB, called Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis before 1919) in Munich is the central "Landesbibliothek", i. e. the state library of the Free State of Bavaria and one of Europe's most important universal libraries.

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Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy.

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Brighella

Brighella (French: Brighelle) is a comic, masked character from the Commedia dell'arte.

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Capriccio (art)

In painting, a capriccio (plural: capricci; in older English works often anglicized as "caprice") means an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations, and may include staffage (figures).

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Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.

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Carlo Gozzi

Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 – 4 April 1806) was an Italian playwright and defender of Commedia dell'Arte.

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Carnival

Carnival (see other spellings and names) is a Western Christian and Greek Orthodox festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent.

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Clown

Clowns are comic performers who employ slapstick or similar types of physical comedy, often in a mime style.

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Columbina

Columbina (in Italian Colombina, meaning "little dove"; in French and English Colombine) is a stock character in the Commedia dell'Arte.

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Comédie larmoyante

Comédie larmoyante was a genre of French drama of the 18th century.

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Comédie-Italienne

Comédie-Italienne or Théâtre-Italien are French names which have been used to refer to Italian-language theatre and opera when performed in France.

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Così fan tutte

(Thus Do They All, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an Italian-language opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.

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Costumes in commedia dell'arte

Each character in Commedia dell'arte is distinctly different, and defined by their movement, actions, masks, and costumes.

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Courage

Courage (also called bravery or valour) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.

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Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Epiphany (holiday)

Epiphany, also Theophany, Little Christmas, or Three Kings' Day, is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God incarnate as Jesus Christ.

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Fabula palliata

Fabula palliata is a genre of Roman drama that consists largely of Romanized versions of Greek plays.

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Flaminio Scala

Flaminio Scala (27 September 1552 – 9 December 1624), commonly known by his stage name, Flavio,Landolfi 1993.

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Francesco Andreini

Francesco Andreini (c. 1548 – 1624) was an Italian actor mainly of commedia dell'arte plays.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer.

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Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (or; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

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Giambattista Andreini

Giambattista Andreini (9 February 1576 – 7 June 1654) was an Italian actor and playwright.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces.

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Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti

Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (24 April 1719, Turin, Piedmont – 5 May 1789, London) was an Italian literary critic, poet, writer, translator, linguist and author of two influential language-translation dictionaries.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer.

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Harlequin

Harlequin (Arlecchino, Arlequin, Old French Harlequin) is the best-known of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell'arte.

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Harmony

In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.

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Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon

The Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, a former Parisian town house of the royal family of Bourbon, was located on the right bank of the Seine on the rue d'Autriche, between the Louvre to the west and the Church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois to the east.

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House of Medici

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century.

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Humanism

Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism and empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition.

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I Gelosi

I Gelosi («The Zealous ones») was an Italian acting troupe that performed commedia dell'arte from 1569 to 1604.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

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Il Capitano

Il Capitano (Italian for "The Captain") is one of the four stock characters of Commedia dell'arte. He most-likely was never a "Captain", but rather appropriated the name for himself.

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Il Dottore

Il Dottore ("the Doctor"; commonly known in Italian as Dottor Balanzone or simply Balanzone; Bolognese Dutåur Balanzån) is a commedia dell'arte stock character, one of the vecchi, or "old men", whose function in a scenario is to be an obstacle to the young lovers.

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Improvisation

Improvisation is creating or performing something spontaneously or making something from whatever is available.

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Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre, often called improv or impro, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers.

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Innamorati

Gli Innamorati (meaning "The Lovers") were stock characters within the theatre style known as Commedia dell'arte, which appeared in 16th century Italy.

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Interpolation (music)

Interpolation refers to different things in classical music and hip hop music.

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Invective

Invective (from Middle English invectif, or Old French and Late Latin invectus) is abusive, reproachful, or venomous language used to express blame or censure; or, a form of rude expression or discourse intended to offend or hurt; vituperation, or deeply seated ill will, vitriol.

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Isabella Andreini

Isabella Andreini (Padua, 1562 – 10 June 1604), also known as Isabella Da Padova, was an Italian actress and writer.

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Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century (Trecento) and lasted until the 17th century (Seicento), marking the transition between Medieval and Modern Europe.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jacques Callot

Jacques Callot (– 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands).

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Janus

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (IANVS (Iānus)) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings.

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Jealousy

Jealousy is an emotion; the term generally refers to the thoughts or feelings of insecurity, fear, concern, and envy over relative lack of possessions, status or something of great personal value, particularly in reference to a comparator.

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Jean-Antoine Watteau

Jean-Antoine Watteau (baptised October 10, 1684 – died July 18, 1721),Wine, Humphrey, and Annie Scottez-De Wambrechies.

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L'elisir d'amore

L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a comic opera (melodramma giocoso) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.

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La Signora

La Signora (an Italian phrase which translates to "the lady" in English) is a character in Commedia dell'arte.

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Lazzi

Lazzi (from the Italian lazzo, a joke or witticism) are stock comedic routines that are traditionally associated with Commedia dell'arte.

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Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Love

Love encompasses a variety of different emotional and mental states, typically strongly and positively experienced, ranging from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure.

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Madrigal

A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

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Madrigal (Trecento)

The Trecento Madrigal is an Italian musical form of the 14th century.

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Mannerism

Mannerism, also known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 and lasted until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.

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Niccolò Barbieri

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Barbieri (Vercelli, 1586 - 1641) was an Italian writer and actor of the commedia dell'arte theatrical genre.

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Nick Hern Books

Nick Hern Books is a London-based independent specialist publisher of plays, theatre books and screenplays.

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Old age

Old age refers to ages nearing or surpassing the life expectancy of human beings, and is thus the end of the human life cycle.

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Opera buffa

Opera buffa ("comic opera", plural: opere buffe) is a genre of opera.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Pagliacci

Pagliacci (literal translation, Clowns)The title is sometimes incorrectly rendered in English with a definite article as I pagliacci.

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Palace of Fontainebleau

The Palace of Fontainebleau or Château de Fontainebleau, located southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal châteaux.

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Pantalone

Pantalone, spelled Pantaloon in English, is one of the most important principal characters found in commedia dell'arte.

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Pantomime

Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.

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Pedrolino

Pedrolino is a primo zanni, or comic servant, of the Commedia dell'Arte; the name is a hypocorism of Pedro (Peter), via the suffix -lino.

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Petrushka (ballet)

Petrushka (Pétrouchka; Петрушка) is a ballet burlesque in four scenes.

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Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Rattenfänger von Hameln, also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the titular character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Pierre Beaumarchais

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French polymath.

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Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist.

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Pierrot

Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne; the name is a diminutive of Pierre (Peter), via the suffix -ot. His character in contemporary popular culture—in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall—is that of the sad clown, pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin.

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Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.

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Pulcinella

Pulcinella, a name derived from "pulcino," meaning chick, and "pollastrello," meaning rooster, is a classical character that originated in commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry.

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Pulcinella (ballet)

Pulcinella is a one-act neoclassical ballet by Igor Stravinsky based on an 18th-century play Quartre Polichinelles semblables ("Four identical Pulcinellas").

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Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular, and usually violent puppet show featuring Pulcinella (Mr. Punch) and his wife Judy.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

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Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.

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Sandrone

Sandrone (Sandróun in Modenese dialect) is the traditional mask and character of the Commedia dell'arte representing the city of Modena.

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Scapin the Schemer

Scapin the Schemer (Les Fourberies de Scapin) is a three-act comedy of intrigue by the French playwright Molière.

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Scapino

Scappino, or Scapin, is a zanni character from the commedia dell'arte.

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Scaramouche

Scaramouche (from Italian scaramuccia, literally "little skirmisher"), also known as scaramouch, is a stock clown character of the commedia dell'arte (comic theatrical arts of Italian literature).

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Scenario

In the performing arts, a scenario (from Italian: that which is pinned to the scenery; pronounced) is a synoptical collage of an event or series of actions and events.

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Sex

Organisms of many species are specialized into male and female varieties, each known as a sex. Sexual reproduction involves the combining and mixing of genetic traits: specialized cells known as gametes combine to form offspring that inherit traits from each parent.

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Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

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Slapstick

Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.

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Steven Berkoff

Leslie Steven Berkoff (né Berks; born 3 August 1937) is an English character actor, author, playwright and theatre director.

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Stock character

A stock character is a stereotypical fictional character in a work of art such as a novel, play, or film, whom audiences recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition.

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Tartaglia (commedia dell'arte)

Tartaglia is a dainty character in the Commedia dell'arte.

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Terence

Publius Terentius Afer (c. 195/185 – c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence, was a Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent.

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The Love for Three Oranges

The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33, also known by its French language title (Любовь к трём апельсинам, Lyubov' k tryom apel'sinam), is a satirical opera by Sergei Prokofiev. Its French libretto was based on the Italian play L'amore delle tre melarance by Carlo Gozzi. The opera premiered at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on 30 December 1921.

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The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.

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The Servant of Two Masters

The Servant of Two Masters (Il servitore di due padroni) is a comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni written in 1746.

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The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Theatrical property

A prop, formally known as (theatrical) property, is an object used on stage or on screen by actors during a performance or screen production.

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Three Musicians

Three Musicians is the title of two similar collage and oil paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

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Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered, 1581), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem.

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Town square

A town square is an open public space commonly found in the heart of a traditional town used for community gatherings.

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Tristano Martinelli

Tristano Martinelli (c. 1556 – 1630), called Dominus Arlecchinorum, the "Master of Harlequins", was an Italian actor in the commedia dell'arte tradition.

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Turandot (Gozzi)

Turandot (1762) is a commedia dell'arte play by Count Carlo Gozzi after a supposedly Persian story from the collection Les Mille et un jours (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix (not to be confused with One Thousand and One Nights).

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Vagrancy

Vagrancy is the condition of a person who wanders from place to place homeless with no regular employment nor income, referred to as a vagrant, vagabond, rogue, tramp or drifter.

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Vanitas

A vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, often contrasting symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality and death.

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Vecchio

Vecchio (plural vecchi, meaning "old one" or simply "old"), is a category of aged, male characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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Zan Ganassa

Zan Ganassa (c. 1540 – c. 1584) was the stage name of an early actor-manager of Commedia dell'arte, whose company was one of the first to tour outside Italy.

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Zanni

Zanni, Zani or Zane is a character type of Commedia dell'arte best known as an astute servant and trickster.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell'arte

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