Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An early form of Italian theatre characterised by stock characters in a variety of masks, popular in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century.

    Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters

Translations

3 languages

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from Italian commedia dell'arte (literally “comedy of the art”).

Unadapted borrowing from Italian commedia dell'arte (literally “comedy of the art”).

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Forms

plural: commedie dell'arte / commedias dell'arte

Synonyms

1 synonyms
commedia

See also

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