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Commedia dell'arte

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. W

Term type

AAT
Motif

Getty AAT term number

300055912

Broader Terms used

<literary and oral genres>

Created

13yrs ago

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