commedia dell'arte
noun
com·me·dia del·l'ar·te
kə-ˌmā-dē-ə-(ˌ)del-ˈär-tē 
kə-ˌme-
: Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters
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The crooner displaced the commedia dell'arte Pierrot on my list of (sad) male archetypes this year.
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Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2023
The initiative kicks off April 2 with Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, a rollicking update of Carlo Goldoni's commedia dell'arte classic, The Servant of Two Masters, relocated to the English seaside town of Brighton in 1963.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2020
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Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2023
The initiative kicks off April 2 with Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, a rollicking update of Carlo Goldoni's commedia dell'arte classic, The Servant of Two Masters, relocated to the English seaside town of Brighton in 1963.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2020
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“Commedia dell'arte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commedia%20dell%27arte. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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