What were the name of Italian art form, where professional troupes performed improv. scenarios?

hey just wanted to know this question because its in my HW i cant find the answer. also there are other questions.








Which two characters were only the only stock characters not to wear masks?





What was the shape of the Elizabethan playhouse?





Why were the areas of the stage knows as "upstage" and "downstage"?





Name two dramatists of the period after 1700 and a play written by each.





i just want all the help i can get.. thank you.

What were the name of Italian art form, where professional troupes performed improv. scenarios?
commedia del arte (you better check the spelling)


2 characters without masks I don't know


Elizabethan playhouse was round, like the Globe Theater


Upstage and downstage because the stage was raked: it slanted down from back to front


Post-1700 dramatist. Moliere, "Bourgeois Gentilhomme."


That's all the help I can give. You're welcome
Reply:It's spelled Commedia dell'arte.





The two young lovers, the innamorati, were not masked.





The Globe Theatre wasn't round exactly, but roundish. It was a polygon of about 20 sides.





The last fella's right; the stage was slanted ("raked")--higher in back to improve visability.





Surprise your teacher with a female playwright!


Susanna Centlivre, The Busy Bodie (1709)


and Henry Fielding, The Author's Farce (1730)