commedia dell'arte

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

   Broadercomedy

Questions about commedia dell'arte

What does commedia dell'arte mean?

commedia dell'arte means "Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters".

Is commedia dell'arte a common word?

commedia dell'arte is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.