Theatre Stuff

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thespis

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first performer out of the chorus

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tetralogy

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3 tragedies and a satyr play

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harmartia

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character flaw yo

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hubris

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excessive pride

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pathos

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calamity

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agnorisis

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recognition

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Peripeteia

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reversal

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catharsis

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releasing of emotional tension

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prologos

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opening scene & exposition

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parados

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when the chorus enters

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Greek tragedy structure

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prologos, parados, alternating episodes, exodus

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old-ass comedies

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more freedom in speech, more extreme exaggeration, obscene humor.

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agon

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debate between 2 forces

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parabasis

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breaking 4th wall

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komos

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choral dancing

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old comedy structure

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prologos, agon, parabasis, komos

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content of new comedies

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private & domestic issues, stock characters, 5 acts, less outspoken.

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fabula togata

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comedies in Roman dress

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fabula palliata

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comedies based on Greek subjects

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Fabula CREPIDATA

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roman adaptations of Greek tragedies

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Fabula praetexta

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roman tragedies

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psychomachia

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good & evil struggle for the soul of the individual

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ars moriendi

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art of dying well

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episodic literature

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locale shifts are abrupt, genres are mixed, not one single plot

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climactic literature

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plot begins near climax, limited to one place, few major characters

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anachronistic

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set outside of historical and chronological time. Play is in God's time.

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miracle plays

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about saints and martyrs

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mystery / cycle plays

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biblical stories

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italian renaissance drama types

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comedy tragedy, pastoral drama (rural shenanigans), religious dramas

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pleiade

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french academy to standardize literature, founded by Cardinal richelieu.

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Rules of Horace

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Decorum, verisimilitude, unities of time place & action, five acts, didactic drama, no violence, soliloquies, chorus, deux ex machina, genre mixing.

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loa

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allegorical prologue

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auto sacramentales

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supported by church, can be about anything as long as the church is game.

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carros

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pageant wagons

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entremeses

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short plays between spanish comedies

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Aristotle's god poetics

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plot, character, thought, dialogue, melody, spectacle

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atellen farce

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Roman improv like Commedia del Arte

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sacra rappresentazioni

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biblical stories from italian renaizzance

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JC Scaliger

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characters should approximate reality, move & delight, everyone dance, Italian

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L. Castelvetro

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codifie units of time, place and action. Theatre was to please the ignorant masses.

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A.S. Minturno

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De Poetica, tragedy as means of moral instruction & spiritual cleansing. Made opera.

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aeschylus

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reduced chorus, second actor, tetralogy, scenic decorations.

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Sophocles

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third actor, individuals over families, idealized men, won Dionysia like a million times.

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Euripides

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first realist, covered reality.

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plautus

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Roman spit on greek models. added song to mananders spit.

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terence

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accused of plagarism, comedy as means of moral instruction

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seneca

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based tragedies on Greek myth, characters obsessed w/ one emotion, 5 episodes w/ choral odes

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Ben Jonson

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Poet laureate of England, wrote masques and anti-masques for the court of James I, developed comedy of humors

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comedy of humors

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each principal character has an excess of one trait or humor: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.

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John Webster

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1 writer = 1 scene, successful cuz The White Devil and The Dutchess of malfi

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Jean Racine

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French, loved Greece, invented the alexandrine, super neoclassical

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claque

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hired group of applauders to make or break a work

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Pierre Corneille

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French classical tragic theater, didn't conform to anyones bull.

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moliere

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father of french comedy, touring company, commedia dell'arte, tartugfeflen

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Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz

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3 autos, baroque poetry, 32 loas, was a woman in a convent.

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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La Vida es Sueno, fate, mostly for court but some public. Cape and sword, love and honor plays, lots took a while to be unpublished.

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lope de Vega

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first professional playwright, New Art for Writing Plays of Our Time.

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archon

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gov official selecte by lot to manage City Dionysus

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choragus

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first producer for each playwright that also helped with personell.

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chorodidaskos

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choral trainer

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theatron

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audience seating

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orchestra

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dance space for chorus

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thymele

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altar for making sacrifices

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skene

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wooden bldng behind orchestra for dressing, storage, and masking of sp. effects.

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proskenion/paraskenion

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facade and projecting sides of the skene which provided background scenery and a platform for the actors.

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episkenion

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eventual second floor

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aediles

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roman magistrates

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dominus

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lead actor and director of a troupe of players

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cavea

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audience seating complete with awning (velum) and cooling fan

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orchestra

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half seats for gov officials, half sea battles.

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scaena w/ pulpitum

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roofed bldng behind the orchestra for dressing, storage, and masking. 2-3 stories high.

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auleum

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curtains

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scanea frons

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ornate front of scanea

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vomitorium

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tunnel entryway connecting cavea to scaena and allowed patrons to access specific seating areas.

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sebastiano serlio

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architettura

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tragic backgrounds

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shows a street of stately houses

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comic

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shows a street scene

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pastoral

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shows trees, hills and cottages

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aristotile de san gallo

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periaktoi, three-sided thing on a central axis

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niccola sabbatini

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manual for constructing theatrical scenes and machines, Ceil du Prince,

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giovan Battista Aleotti

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flat wing and groove system

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pole and chariot system

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moves those flats around

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teatro olimpico

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first indoor theatre of the Renaissance fashioned after Roman architecture. Scamozzi

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teatro farnese

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first proscenium stage, aleotti.

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Inigio Jones

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influenced by Italians, brought their spit over here.

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confrerie

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produced religious drama, Hotel de Bourgogne

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palais cardinal (royal)

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first court teatre to use a permanent proscenium arch and had a stage design for flat wings, changed w/ pole and chariot system.

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corrales

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Elizabethan tiring house, built in existing courtyards

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corral de la cruz

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first permanent public theatre

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el coliseo de Buen Retiro

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first permanent theatre in a court palace

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early opera

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Greek and biblical events

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grand opera

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emotional limits of human behavior. Greek performance plus music.

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angelo beolco

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killjoy author serious dude

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andrea calmo

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old man pants

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lazzi

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physical comedy

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pantalone

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big pants

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il dottore

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speaks with pompous air expecting full attn. doctor.

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il capitano

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captain, stranger looking for money and a wife. Coward but not physically weak.

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arlecchino

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simpleton. Shaggy.

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brighella

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brawler. Gangster.

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pierrot

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baby man?

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pulcinella

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chick

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servetta

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rational maid