Word: commedia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young apprentices who get themselves invited to the summer estate of a wealthy British couple and plan to rob the latter of their valuables and their nieces. An example of the frivolous boulevardier school of writing, the play harks back in form and style to the tradition of the commedia dell' arte, of Moliere and of Marivaux...
...history. Kaendler's pieces were intended chiefly for banquet settings of a sort that had previously been made in candy or wax. He could turn his patron's dining table into a miniature park or stage alive with glistening birds or gaily obscene mimes from the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Sometimes he would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part of a humorous circle of distractions derived from Molière, in which the gallant's daring is brought to nothing by the lady...
...Virginia's new Watteau dates from the period when he had first found his own formula for combining artifice with nature. For it was not in the mincing, grandiloquent French courtiers that Watteau found his prototypes but from among the mocking, high-spirited, slapstick players of the Italian Commedia dell'Arte. By placing them against the superb park landscapes he sketched in and around Paris, Watteau created a half-make-believe world of his own that paid homage to nothing but his own poetic imagination...
...Golden Coach is the story of what happens when a band of strolling players of the Renaissance, a commedia dell' arte company from Italy, troops into a Spanish colonial seat in South America to play for the uncomprehending rurals and the hayseed nobility of the region. Camilla, the Columbine (Anna Magnani), in love with a young Castilian noble she met on the voyage over (Paul Campbell), is soon juggling the local bullfighter (Riccardo
...famous as a pianist and pedagogue (and transcriber of Bach) than as a composer, wrote the libretto for Harlequin on a visit to the U.S. in 1915. He hung his sardonic and sometimes savage satire on romantic opera, World War I and man in general, on a framework of commedia dell'arte. Harlequin is Faust in evening clothes, and his suave cynicism corrodes everyone it touches-an old Dante-reading tailer, his young wife, Harlequin's own wife, her lover, a doctor and a priest...