1.)Improvisation
2.)Stock Characters
- Two Character Types
1.) Unmasked:
Young Lovers were depicted as witty, handsome, well-educated; but also naive, and not too bright. They were dressed in fashionable garments of the day.
2.) Masked
- Masters
Capitano was one of the lovers, exaggerated in manners and dress. Transformed into a coward after having boasted of many conquests in battle and love and eventually discredited. Wore sword, cape and feathered headdress.
Pantalone was a middle-aged or elderly merchant. Venetian dialect. Fond of Proverbs. Wore a tight red vest, red breeches and stockings, soft slippers, a black, ankle-length coat, a soft brimless cap with trailing wisps of hair, a brown mask with a large hooked nose, and a scraggly gray beard.
Dottore either Pantalone's friend or rival and held a high place in society. Usually a doctor of law or medicine. Bolognese dialect. Liked to show off his education. Wore academic cap and gown. Jealous husband often cuckolded.
- Servants
Harlequin was both cunning and stupid and was a dancer and acrobat. Usually at the center of any intrigue. Where's what is now known as "harlequin". On his head, a raksh hat above a black mask, at his side, a wooden sword (slap stick).
Brighella was Harlequin's frequent companion. His mask had a hooked nose and mustache, and his trousers and jacket were decorated with a green braid.
Pulcinello was always a Neopolitan. Sometimes he was a servant or he could be a merchant or a host of an inn. Mixture of foolishness and shrewdness, villainy and love, wit and dullness. Enormous hooked nose, humback, and wore a long pointed cap.
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