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In her expert S. Mokulsky describes in detail all that is connected with «COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE [otherwise - comedy masks] - Italian improvised comedy XVI-XVIII centuries. The term «C. d. a. »means" professional comedy "(Italian arte - art, craft, profession),"
«Commedia dell'arte - genre of a complex and technically sophisticated. Its social base - not the people poor, and large commercial bourgeoisie XVI century., Undergoing a time of weakening of its social activity in relation to the economic decline of Italy. Partly reborn in a rentier, partly tending to senerialnomu lifestyle and to the feudal mode of production, the bourgeois aristocracy of the XVI century. presents a huge demand for theatrical performances, a rye-of sporadic becoming regular and entail the stationary base theaters and the creation of a frame of professional actors. "
Everything converges provided you with a series of works Degaya for another comedy of masks:
.. and have Mikulski we read further ... "It creates a set of typical characters of C. d. a., to-ryh was 10-12: 2 old, 2 servants, 2-3 pairs of lovers, maid, and the captain (played by old men and servants in masks). Each character had its own repertoire tirades, replicas, monologues, wit, a recorded vote the actors in special notebooks, called zibaldone (mixture) or repertorio, which are sometimes issued in support of acting improvisation. "