!!!Commedia dellòarte

Commedia dell"arte, improvisational Italian comedy of the 16%%sup th/% 
 and 17%%sup th/%  centuries with stock character masks, a fixed 
succession of scenes and improvised dialogue; played by professional 
actors who always appeared in the same masks (Arlecchino, Pantalone, 
Dottore, Pulcinella, Colombina, and others); itinerant commedia 
troupes first came to Austria in the second half of the 16th century, 
at about the same time as the English Comedians. Traces of their 
influence can be found in the old Viennese popular theatre, for 
example in J. A.  Stranitzky, G.  Prehauser, F.  Raimund and J.  
Nestroy.

!Literature
H. Kindermann and M. Dietrich, Die Commedia 
dell´arte und die Entwicklung des Altwiener Volkstheaters, 1966; 
K. Riha, Die Commedia dell´arte, 1980; G. Hansen, Formen der 
Commedia dell"arte in Deutschland, 1984.


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