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History of Commedia dell'Arte.
Arlecchino is one of the most lasting of the Commedia dell'Arte
characters. Known in English as Harlequin, the general term for a
clown, Arlecchino has been transformed into many types of clowns,
leading indirectly to Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, also known as Charlot.
And Arlecchino is the indirect basis for the English puppet Punch.
More below.
Commedia dell'Arte is a uniquely Italian improvisational
theatrical form known throughout Europe since the 1500s as
Commedia Italiana. In Italy, it was known as
Commedia a braccio (Entertainments off-the-cuff). Stock characters, represented by standardized
costumes and masks, peopled traveling theatrical troupes.
They
performed a repertoire of comic and melodramatic plays for courts,
private merchant families and for the public, usually in a public
square, at times in improvised theatres. Sometimes the
characters took on different names but the characteristics and
costumes remained the same so they were easily recognizable to the
audiences. The characters, thin plotlines and slapstick were
direct descendants of Ancient Roman comedic theatrical traditions. A theatre troupe would have a Zilbaldone or
Generici, a book of prepared elements for each stock
character: speeches, scenes (lazzi), songs,
dances, riddles, complicated insults (ingiurie), burlesques (burle),
expressions, costumes and props associated with each stock
character. These elements would be interwoven at will by the actors
as
they fleshed out the basic storyline, improvising whatever was
needed, or whatever the crowd seemed to enjoy most. No two
performances were the same. The story line generally consisted of young
lovers impeded by old people, sometimes by a lusty old man who
wanted to take the young woman for himself. The young
lovers would turn to their servants for help. Sound
familiar? It should. It's the basic plotline for all the
Marx Brothers movies. Below I describe and show some common Commedia dell'Arte
stock
characters. Before acting troupes formed, actors usually
relied on local rulers and aristocracy to pay them to entertain
their courts. As merchants became richer, they built
private theatres and hired actors to perform for them, too, but not
full-time. The merchants opened their private theatres to
the public as a money-making venture. Those who could,
paid handsomely for private box seats, while the others paid much
less for a standing place in the gallery before the stage. As more and more theatres were constructed, many
actors began forming traveling troupes, who moved between these
theatres and courts, performing their own versions of the Commedia
dell'Arte standards. Stars headlined the troupes,
guaranteeing audiences wherever they performed. Most troupes consisted of: Vecchi - Old Players, who played the
characters of Merchant, Doctor, Notary, Lawyer, Father, Soldier,
Master. Zanni - Comics, who played the comic
servant characters including the Cunning Male, the Cunning
Female, the Dumb Male, the Goodhearted Female. Amorosi or Innamorati - Lovers, who
played two sets of star-crossed lovers, the First Lovers and the
Second Lovers. Musicanti - Musicians, who sang and
danced at regular intervals throughout the performance, and in
the towns to advertise the coming shows. Acrobati - Acrobats, who performed on
stage and in the streets to draw a crowd. Many of these actors and musicians took on other
minor roles as needed, such as poor professionals, soldiers,
farmers. At the same time Commedia dell'Arte was
making it's way across Europe, another theatrical tradition existed
in Italy, too. Commedia Erudita (Educated
Entertainments) was the dry reading of scripted plays by academics
to other academics. Eventually, with some help from the Italian
playwright Carlo Goldoni, and from the French playwright
Moliere, the two forms would be combined together to create
a scripted theatre, populated by many stock characters.
Commedia dell'Arte was adopted directly into the opera of it's
day, stimulating what was called Opera Buffa, or silly
opera. In their later works, those most often
performed today, Carlo Goldoni and Moliere transformed Commedia
dell'Arte's stock characters from one-dimensional props into
more realistic multi-dimensional characters. Opera made
the same transformation with the help of Mozart and his librettist
Lorenzo da Ponte. Descendents of this theatre can be seen in
every form of entertainment today, from mime, puppetry, television
series, films, plays, to comic sketches. The situations and
characters appeal to basic human nature, which is why
they traveled well and remain entertaining today. They are
human archetypes.
Commedia dell'Arte in a modern form still exists,
entertaining audiences around the world. Check the sites of
these troupes to see where and when they perform.
The Electric Theatre Company, formerly the Northeast Theatre, perform
regularly including a recent performance of a new Marx Brother's
story, and they teach a very fun sounding, hands-on course in
Commedia dell'arte. They also offer a course in
Italy in June and July called
In bocca al lupo,
Course details,
Some Photos,
More Photos,
Comments from former Students.
Luoghi del arte (Rome)
Teatro di
San Carlino (Naples) A Commedia dell'Arte puppet theatre,
the oldest continuous establishment of it's kind in the world.
In Italian only.
In Britain,
Commedia dell'arte is called Pantomime or Panto. It is often
performed during the end of year holiday season. Many of the stock characters were depicted in the
popular marionette shows in appropriately sized theatres (Teatrino
delle marionette) and in the puppet shows on the streets of
Venice and other cities and in specially constructed theatres (Teatro dei burattini).
Arlechino and the Doctor marionettes Visit my page of
reminiscences by a traveler to
Venice in the 1860s
for what these theatres were like, and why he found them more
entertaining than human theatres. He also describes a visit to a Commedia dell'Arte
show that left him enthusiastic with the casual, involving
atmosphere of Italian theatre, where the behind the scenes antics of
the performers happened before the scenes. Teatro di San
Carlino (Naples) A Commedia dell'Arte puppet theatre, is the
oldest continuous establishment of it's kind in the world. Their
site is in Italian only. For children: the
SimonRossi.it site has coloring pages of many of these
characters. London's V&A Museum collection of Commedia dell'Arte
paintings and more interestingly of marionettes. Be sure to
view the 2, 3, and 4th pages for all the marvelous marionettes,
strings included.
Sipario - Carnival and
Costumes in English and Italian
Common Commedia
dell'Arte
Characters (Masks) (Be sure to check the
Costume Gallery below for
costumes you can purchase to play these wonderful characters.) Decadent Old Merchant - Pantalone dei Bisognosi
He is one of the oldest characters known,
originally as Il Magnifico, who together with the First
Servant, would entertain people in the streets for money from
passers-by. He is a Venetian merchant, old master, who is
pompous and foolish, rich and miserly, an indulgent father or a
sexual predator of young women. He's known also as Cassandro,
Zenobbio, Magnifico, Tartaglia (half-blind and stuttering),
Tabbarino, Sior Tonin Bonagrazia (a very foolish Venetian). This is an image of Cassandro.
And an image of the half-blind and stuttering
Tartaglia.
Il Dottore - The Doctor
He is a Bolognese University trained doctor who is
learned and respected by others, but who in reality is foolish,
ill-educated as seen by his mangling of the language, and prone to
pointless, learned debates while his patients die. He is known
by many names, including Graziano and Balanzone and
Boloardo, but the
character is always the same. First Zanni - First Servant - Brighella
Traditionally in a theatrical troupes, and in most
plays they performed, there was a First Servant (Primo
Zanni) who is scheming, more clever than his master,
semi-serious, poor, illiterate, from Bergamo, and a busy-body. He
goes by
many names, but most commonly by Brighella, Mazzetino,
Giangurgolo, Gioppino, Tabarino, Pedrolino, Fritellino or Pierrot which is a later, more romantic version
of the same character. Here's an image of Mazzetino.
This is an image of Fritellino.
This is Tabbarino.
Second Zanni - Second Servant - Arlecchino
There is also a Second Servant (Secondo
Zanni) who is stupid, foolish, poor, easily distracted, easily
provoked into a fight, from Bergamo, sometimes carrying a stick, and
always hungry. This character is generally called
Arlecchino (Pulcinella is the Neapolitan version from which
comes the English puppet character Punch), but is also known as
Francatrippa, Polichinelle, Truffadino, Girandolaio, BeppeNappa
(Sicilian version), Trivellino, Stentarello (Florentine
version) or Burattino. Charlie Chaplin's Tramp
character is known as Charlot outside the U.S., and is seen as a
direct descendent of Arlecchino via Pulcinella. This is an image of the Neapolitan Pulcinella.
Here's an image of the Sicilian BeppeNappa.
Here is an image of Florentine Stenterello.
A variation of Arlecchino popular in Venice puppet
theatres was the psychopathic character with the billy-club or
night-stick who beat people to death after befriending them, in
sang-froid, or cold-bloodedly, feeling no remorse what-so-ever.
Other character in this same vein if a bit milder at times, are
Ruzante, Macco, Fagiolino (Bologna, Dosseno, and Punch in England. This is an image of Ruzante.
Colombina - Zanni - Servant Girl
This is a female servant character, who is often
paired with the Second Servant as his wife (in English she became
Judy). She is often vicious, spiteful, wily, pragmatic, very clever,
and Venetian.
She goes by many names including Arlecchina, Corallina, Ricciolina,
Camilla and Lisetta. Loyal Maid Servant
A faithful personal maid to the Prima Donna who
helps her survive the melodramatic travails of the story.
Sometimes called Ragonda. Another version is Bela
Majin (Piedmont) who is the beautiful and loyal wife of
Bicciolano, dressed red with a long head veil. Good Natured Man Milanese usually, moral, dignified, wise and likes
the quiet life. He transforms from servant to merchant and
back again, and has several incarnations, such as Meneghino,
Gianduja (Torino), Bicciolano (Piedmont). This is Torinese Gianduja.
This is Piedmontese Bicciolano.
This is Milanese Meneghino.
Here is good Sicilian Pasquino.
Zanni - Musician - Scapino Scapino is the most famous musical servant.
He's always depicted with an instrument. Coviello is
another musical character that has a generally silly personality in
whatever role he shows up. The French Scaramouche or
Scaramuccia character is often with an instrument too. This is Scapino.
Here's an image of Coviello.
And this is Scaramouche.
Aspirational Peasant This comic character had many names and
personifications, but the characteristics are the same. He has
a strong regional dialect and pretends to be better bred than he
really is. Beltrame, Sandrone. This is an image of Beltrame.
Wild Man - Caveman - Uomo
selvatico
Also call Uomo selvaggio. A primitive, hairy man who responds to all his
primitive urges. He's also used in plays as a wood nymph,
causing all kinds of trouble for unsuspecting people who happen upon
him. El Capitan - The Captain
The Captain goes my many names, but the most
popular is Capitan Spavento, image above. Spavento means 'fear' in
Italian, which describes his character well. The Captain is a
braggard soldier, vainglorious, Spanish or Neopolitan, a buffoon who
considers himself a prize for any woman, and who is timid in combat.
He's thought to be the basis of Shakespeare's famous character
Falstaff. He's known variously as Capitan: Coccodrillo,
Matamoros (more comical), Rinocerante, Narcisino, Scaramouche or Scaramuccia (France), Rugantino
(Rome), Giangugolo (Calabria), Meo Pattaca. This is Narcisino.
Here is Capitan Matamoros.
And this is Scaramouche.
Meo Pattaca is based on a Roman mercenary character from a
classic poem and play.
Saltembanco - Mountebank
This is the show barker, pitchman, salesman.
He roams the town streets trying to draw in the crowds into the
show. He would take part in a play by acting as the narrator,
or playing any charlatan that needed playing. Saltembanco
means jumps on the bench, suggesting he would often climb up on
benches to be seen and heard in the busy streets. The humorous
image above shows what the man might resort to in his job as barker. The Lovers - Gli
innamorati - Gli amorosi The first woman of a troupe, the Prima Donna,
usually played the female romantic lead. Each performance had
it's melodramatic element, star-crossed lovers, to please the softer
emotions of the audience. There was also a handsome,
masculine, young leading man to play her lover. They were both
cultured, beautiful, elegant and eloquent. They went by
various names like Flavio and Flaminia, Leandro and
Isabella, Silvia and Silvio, Fiorella and
Fiorello, Rosaura and
Rosario. Think of the old Marx Brothers movies. They
always had a story of young lovers in the middle of all the zany
mayhem caused by the Zanni, the Marx Brothers, who tried to get the
young lovers together while clashing with the establishment
characters such as Doctors, Rich Men and Women, and the Captains of
Police. This is Isabella.
Here's an image of Silvia.
Here is Fiorella.
There was often in a troupe a set of Second
Lovers, who many time played friends or rivals of the First Lovers.
The actors doubled for other characters when needed, and entertained
the crowds during the musical acts. A Dancer.
A Singer.
An Apothecary.
A Notary.
Click through to my Venice Carnival page for
some Venetian inspired characters associated with Carnival. Visit my Costumes
page for more generic costumes you can purchase for parties and
Carnival.
Venetian artists celebrate the Commedia dell'arte characters (masks) to
this day, mainly because they are popular costumes for Carnival.
These are two shop windows photographed in Venice in 2011.
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