commedia dell'arte

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Scope note
Italian 16th- to 18th-century comedy performed by companies of actors trained to improvise dialogue, gesture, and movement from a written plot built around standardized situations and stock characters.
commedia dell'arte
Accepted term: 29-Apr-2024