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Zanni (Italian:), Zani or Zane is a character type of commedia dell'arte best known as an astute servant and a trickster. The Zanni comes from the countryside and is known to be a "dispossessed immigrant worker". [1] [Note 1] Through time, the Zanni grew to be a popular figure who was first seen in commedia as early as the 14th century. [2]
The first of a set of five etching entitled Five Characters from the Commedia dell'Arte. Etching with hand coloring on laid paper. Pulcinella is a dualistic character: he either plays dumb, although he is very much aware of the situation, or he acts as though he is the most intelligent and competent one on the stage, despite being woefully ...
Commedia dell'arte male characters (3 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Commedia dell'arte characters" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...
The re-interpretation of the "devil" stock character as a Zanni character of the commedia dell'arte took place in the 16th century in France. [15] Zan Ganassa , whose troupe is first mentioned in Mantua in the late 1560s, is one of the earliest known actors suggested to have performed the part, [ 4 ] although there is "little hard evidence to ...
Pantalone is usually the father to one of the innamorati (the lovers), another stock character found in commedia. [12] He is driven to keep his child and their respective lover apart. Pantalone is presented either as a widower or bachelor, and despite his age, makes numerous passes at the women within the commedia world, "though he is always ...
Eduardo De Filippo as Pulcinella, a character from the commedia dell'arte Commedia dell'arte troupe I Gelosi performing, by Hieronymus Francken I, c. 1590. Commedia dell'arte [a] was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italian theatre, that was popular throughout Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Coviello (French: Covielle) is a minor character in the commedia dell'arte. He falls into the category of the Zanni. His name is a double diminutive of the name Giacomo ('Jacob' or 'James'). In English, he might be called 'Jimmy' or 'Jackie'. The character dates back to at least the 16th century.