There is, however, in the critical literature of this period no attempt to explain the theory of the indigenous Italian comedy, the commedia dell' arte.
Dramatic forms like the improvised commedia dell' arte had marked influence on the practice of European comedy in general, especially in France, but left no traces of their influence on the literary criticism of the Italian Renaissance.
Besides this larger work, Salfi published, in 1829, a short essay on the Italian stage, Saggio Storico-Critico della Commedia Italiana.
The characters are those of the old commedia dell'arte.
The characters were largely borrowed from the Italian commedia dell'arte.
The Italian imagination was not careful to differentiate between field and forest: favola boschereccia was used synonymously with commedia pastorale; drammi dei boschi is a term which covers the whole of the pastoral drama.
The Divina Commedia is full of vivid pictures covering the whole range of natural phenomena.
He says:-- "There are certain touches in the Divina Commedia which seem to prove that Dante's use of them was not entirely conventional.
Capitano, the, a character in the Commedia dell'Arte, i.
Commedia dell'Arte to the old Latin comedy of mimes and exodia, i.
Neapolitan ingredients in the Commedia dell'Arte, i.
Servetta, the, a character in the Commedia dell'Arte, i.
Sacchi, the last great representative of the Commedia dell'Arte, was a Ferrarese, born at Vienna in 1708.
Florentine ingredients in the Commedia dell'Arte, i.
I refer to the period of the so-called commedia dell'arte, which flourished all over Italy throughout the sixteenth century.
The case of the commedia dell'arte is, of course, extreme; but it emphasises the fact that the problem of the dramatist is less a task of writing than a task of constructing.
The Divina Commedia is one of the landmarks of history.
Those who know the Divina Commedia best will best know how hard it is to be the interpreter of such a mind; but they will sympathize with the wish to call attention to it.
Its artificiality affected the entire growth of Italian comedy, including the commedia dell' arte, and impressed itself in an intensified form upon the opera.
Footnote 33: This account is taken from Bastiano de' Rossi's "Descrizione dell' apparato e degli intermedi fatti per la commedia rappresentata in Firenze nello nozze del serenissimo D.
The work is an attempt to turn into a lyric form the "Commedia dell' Arte," enacted in early times at village fairs in northern Italy.
The connection between other forms of Italian drama, the Commedia dell'arte, the pastoral drama, etc.
Brother Azarius's Spiritual Sense of the Divina Commedia (in his Phases of Thought and Criticism, 1892, pp.
Commedia and Lanzoniere, notes, essays, and biographical introduction by E.
In the commedia a braccio, before mentioned as the inheritance of the Marionette, the dramatist furnished merely the plot, and the outline of the action; the players filled in the character and dialogue.
They are the chief persons of the obsolete commedia a braccio, and have their nationality and peculiarities marked by immemorial attribution.
I have heard some very passable gags at the Marionette, but the real commedia a braccio no longer exists, and its familiar and invariable characters perform written plays.
Many prelusions of this class were combined in one religious drama called Commedia dell'Anima, the substance of which is certainly old, though the form yields evidence of sixteenth-century rifacimento.
Of the Commedia Spirituale dell'Anima I have seen a Sienese copy of the date 1608, a reprint from some earlier Florentine edition.
In the prologues of the later comedies of learning (commedia erudita) allusions to the rude style of Fiesolan shows are pretty frequent.
This title is appropriate, not merely because the book portrays human life from a comic rather than a serious point of view, but also because it is the antithesis of Dante's Commedia Divina.
In Italy thecommedia del arte was the continuation or revival of the mimus.
No young women were allowed to be present at the commedia del arte in the first times of the principate at Florence.
Symonds) may be seen good colored plates representing these fixed characters of the commedia del arte.
Another reason for lesser interest manifested in this part of the Divina Commedia is the difficulty and obscurity of the Paradiso.
In all the years that he spent in the composition of the Divina Commedia there was no flagging of interest, no indication of weakness.
It must be at once confessed that there are instances in the Divina Commedia which, taken by themselves, would lead one to so superficial an estimate of the man.
In the Divina Commedia Statius pays a glowing tribute to the Æneid and its author, wholly ignorant that he is addressing Virgil himself.
Plaudite, amici," said Beethoven on his death bed, "la commedia finita est!
Faust, had it been completed in the spirit in which it was begun, would have been the Divina Commediaof its age.
Brighella recommended the Commedia dell' Arte, as very fit to yield the public innocent amusement.
There is no doubt that during their flourishing period the companies of the Commedia dell' Arte afforded the rarest amusement, not only to the vulgar, but also to refined and cultivated audiences throughout Europe.
In its native country, the Commedia dell' Arte was long regarded as the special glory and the unique product of Italian dramatic genius.
Gozzi declared himself an implacable enemy of the plays in vogue, an opponent of rhymed verses imitating the French Alexandrine measure, and a zealous adherent of the old Commedia dell' Arte.
What followed may be told in the words of a seventeenth-century writer on the technique of the Commedia dell' Arte.
Further familiarity with the modernCommedia dell' Arte will make it clear how tempting it is to conjecture a direct transmission of these Roman masks from ancient to modern times.
Carlo Gozzi conceived the bold idea of writing a fantastic drama upon the old lines of the Commedia dell' Arte, which should fill the theatre of his adoption and restore Sacchi's company to favour.
Such, briefly sketched, was the origin of Italian comedy; and the specific character of the Commedia Erudita, or written comedy of the sixteenth century, may be ascribed to the peculiar conditions out of which it grew.
If the Commedia dell' Arte lacked fancy and invention in its ground-themes, this defect was compensated by audacious realism and Gargantuan humour.
This essay would be incomplete if I failed to describe the decadence of the Commedia dell' Arte, and the various inconveniences which attended its performance by incompetent or wilfully scurrilous actors.
They had been requested to suspend their judgment before finally pronouncing sentence against the Commedia dell' Arte.
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