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A Commedia dell'arte Lazzo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Extract

Among the abundant iconographical records of the commedia dell' arte are a handful of engravings depicting vivaciously capering single characters, of which three have been reproduced by Allardyce Nicoll, where they are identified merely as ‘seventeenth-century engravings’. The same subjects were apparently copied by Adrian de Winter (1615–?) in a set of six groups of commedia characters entitled Titulus Stultorum, where they appear in reverse with the addition of half a dozen characters copied from Callot's Balli di Sfessania.

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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1993

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References

Notes

1. The World of Harlequin (Cambridge, 1963) figs. 94, 95, 96.Google Scholar

2. Reproduced in the illustrated reprint of Smith, Winifred, The Commedia dell' Arte (Benjamin Blom, New York, 1964) p. 300.Google Scholar

3. Lazzi. The Comic Routines of the Commedia dell' Arte (Performing Arts Journal, New York, 1983).Google Scholar

4. Nicoll, Allardyce, Masks, Mimes and Miracles (Harrap, 1931) fig. 189Google Scholar; and a coloured woodcut, apparently from a nineteenth-century children's hook, in the author's collection.

5. Nicoll, Allardyce, The World of Harlequin, p. 220.Google Scholar

6. Speaight, George, A History of the Circus (Tantivy Press, 1980) pp. 22, 26.Google Scholar

7. ‘Professor Risley and Japanese Acrobats’, Nineteenth Century Theatre (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) vol. 18, no. 1 and 2, 1990.Google Scholar

8. The Illustrated London News, 23 02 1867.Google Scholar