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Dra Italian Final
Final study guide for Drama Context 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What, where, and when is Commedia Dell'arte? | Comedy of professional artists in Renaissance Italy, first known in Padua 16th century |
| What was the common topics in Commedia Dell'arte | love affairs, intrigues, disguises, and cross purposes |
| What was the essential element? | the actors |
| How was the script performed? | the scenarios, situations, complications, and outcomes were summarized in the scripts, but everything else was improvised |
| What is lazzi? | Lazzi is the comic stage business, some were standarized |
| What were the lovers stock characters? | innamorato and innamorata, realistic role, no masks, affairs were opposed by fathers and aided by servants |
| What were the Masters stocks characters | Vecchi - usually patalones, dottore, and capitano |
| What is a patalone? | elderly merchant, father of lover, brown hooked nosed mask |
| What is a dottore? | Patalone's friend or rival, lawyer/ doctor, easily tricked |
| What is a capitano? | originally a lover, a coward, unwelcome suitor |
| What is the servant stock characters? | The Zanni, the female were Coumbina and Fantesca, the male were arlecchino and brighella |
| What were Columbina and Fantesca? | female servants to young women, witty, had love affairs with the male servants |
| What was the Arlecchino? | cunning and stupid, acrobat and dancer, called Truggaldino and Trivellino |
| What was Brighella | arlecchino companion, cynically witty, cruel |
| What were the companies? | 10-12 members - 7-8 men and 3-4 women. young actors may have been salaried, traveling |
| Popularity and Decline? | most popular in the 1570s to 1650 and ended in the 18th century |
| Who was the most famous playwrights | Calro Goldolini and Carlo Gozzi |