Innamorati. The Innamorati are the romantic leads -- "Lovers" would be an accurate translation for their title. The male is the inamorato and the female is the inamorata. Due to old fashioned spelling, it sometimes has two Ns yielding innamorato etc. In traditional commedia, the romance of the innamorati is the driving plot of the show -- it Isabella is a stock character used in commedia dell'arte, in the class of innamorata . In the commedia dell'arte, the relationship of the innamorati, or lovers, is often threatened by the vecchi characters, but they are reunited in the end. In his 1929 book The Italian Comedy, Pierre Louis Duchartre writes that Isabella changed from being mainly tender and loving in the 16th century to a more
tional theatre of the commedia dell'arte, such sources are exceedingly rare and difficult to interpret; the historian must combine a deep knowledge of the contemporary musical and theatrical conventions with healthy doses of speculation and imagination, and a profound understand-ing of the varied cultural forces that nurtured both opera

In any given Sitcom (especially an ensemble), you are likely to find at least two of the archetypes listed below. As an example of how these characters mesh, consider the following sample, from Commedia dell'Arte : The Wisecracker: Arlecchino. The Bully/Charmer: Il Capitano. The Square: Columbina.

Play Scripts. Plays are fully scripted shows featuring commedia dell'arte characters. Though they are now considered somewhat less traditional than the improvised scenari, there were published play scripts featuring the stock characters before there were published scenari. These free theater scripts are particularly useful for beginners, or for
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