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‖ commedia dell'arte|komˈmedia dellˈarte, kɒˌmeɪdɪə dɛl ˈɑːteɪ|
[It., lit. ‘comedy of art’.]
Improvised popular comedy as played in Italian theatres from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries with actors representing stock characters.
1877Encycl. Brit. VII. 418/1 The improvised comedy..was now as a rule performed by professional actors, members of a craft, and was thence called the commedia dell'arte, which is said to have been invented by Francesco (called Terenziano) Cherea, the favourite player of Leo X. 1923G. B. Shaw Let. 24 May in F. J. West Shaw on Theatre (1958) 185 The Commedia dell'Arte was improvised Molière. 1938M. McCarthy in Partisan Rev. June 42 A real fantastico, a commedia dell'arte clown with a touch of nobility. 1958Spectator 17 Jan. 76/1 The farcical, commedia dell'arte style favoured by Theatre Workshop. 1963Listener 14 Mar. 478/3 The well-loved characters of the Venetian improvised theatre, the commedia dell'arte. |