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1348 |
Year of bubonic plague |
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1486 |
performace of Menaechmi at Este court of Ferrara |
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1518 |
first performance of Machiavelli's Mandragola (Mandrake) for wedding festivities at Palazzo Medici |
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Alazon |
Greek for "braggart" or "impostor" used to describe pompous, pretentious, overblown characters; Pyrogropolynies, Maestro, Nicia, Homer Simpson |
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Eiron |
Greek for "ironist" or "trickster" witty, resourceful, ingenious characters; Palaestrio, Ciappelletto, Peronella, Ligurio, Bugs Bunny |
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Saturnalian |
patterns of role reversal and irreverence in comedy; based on festival Saturnalia (rules reversed); Carnivalesque |
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Metadramatic and Metatheatrical |
terms used to describe devices and references in plays; "play within a play" - deliberate ironic attention to status of the play AS a play |
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Serio ludere |
"to play in a serious way/serious fun"paradox for mood in comedy |
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Giullare |
type of actor/comedian in medieval Italy; jester, satiric one-man routines; mimicry, dialect, contortions of speech/body - Dario Fo |
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Fortuna |
fortune; chance, changeability; sheer chance; often gendered female |
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Virtu |
individual human talent; sill, personal talents, political abilities; often gendered male |
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Mattina |
ritual of public shaming practiced in early morning hours with rhymes and music, mocking older men and younger women often |
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Theatrical "unities" |
a well-made play needed to have ONE main plot or actionl ONE setting or place, occur during ONE amount of time (max 24 hours), referred to by Timoteo in The Mandrake |
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Bomolokhos |
clown, buffonish character, driven by his/her appetites, lover of fun, often team up with eiron, though unpredictable character, Goofy, Kramer, Lurcio in Braggart Soldier |
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Senex |
old, greedy, miserly, old man figure, block children's desires; Euclio in Pot of Gold |
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Leno |
elderly male, pimp character of classical comedy, sought out by young male characters for assistance; Periplectomenus in Braggart Soldier |
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Miles Gloriosus |
braggart soldier type, rarely ever backs up boasts, coward, fool, dreamer |
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Adulescens Amans |
young male lover, too drippy and impulsice, dependent on advice |
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Servus Callidus |
witty trickster/schemer slave (eiron) |
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Servus Stultus |
often has features of "bomolokhos" often more stupidity and obstinancy; Sceledrus in Braggart Soldier |
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Parasitus |
very important, parasite figure, often schemes against a repressive master or higher authority in order to satisfy his own wishes; Ligurio in the Mandrake |
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Matrona |
wife/mother figure, virtuous, serious in personality, sometimes unfairly abused by husband |
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Meretrix |
prostitute character, more than merely sexual; often involved in clever schemes, ingenious roles, help non-prostitute women get their wishes |
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Ancilla |
low-status maid/maiden figure, raises her own status through course of the comedy |
