Commedia dell'arte
Commedia dell'arte
National Theatre
The language of commedia
2 minutes Posted Oct 7, 2011 at 3:00 pm.
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Commedia companies toured outside of Italy, to France and Spain, and so Gromalot evolved, a nonsensical babble speak that carried the truthful emotional intention of a character. This language meant that audiences were able to understand the action on the stage and enabled commedia dell'arte to become an international type of theatre.