Goldoni’s Commedia dell’Arte
Inspired by the Venetian costumes, one day the comedy writer Goldoni composed a play that was entirely designed around the masks, creating a new comedy genre called Commedia dell’Arte (roughly translatable with Theatre of the professionals). There isn’t a proper script, there are guidelines the actors have to take inspiration from while bringing to life their characters represented by the masks they are wearing. This theatrical form had a Golden Age during the XVIII and XIX centuries, when it came to include masks and costumes from all over Europe. We’ll remember the most famous ones: Harlequin and Colombina, Pantalone and his daughter Rosaura, the French Pierrot and the Neapolitan Pulcinella. Continue reading clicking the below button Next >