Buffo: The Genius of Vulgar Comedy

action activities actors Ages and Renaissance Allardyce Nicoll antiquity Boy Bishop buffo burlesque called carnival Carnival and Lent carnival play carnival scenario Carnival's celebrated century B.C. characters combat comic commedia dell'arte dances deception destruction detail developed devil Dorian mime dramatic exercises dramatic rituals E. K. Chambers Edited elaborate emergent plays England episode evidence example Farce Feast of Fools festival final France frenzy frequently Greece Greek grotesque Harlequin husband important Italy King Carnival komos lampoon later magic masks medieval Menaechmus Middle Ages mime mock Molière Moreover numerous origins Paris phallic songs phlyax farces Plautine play Plautus primitive plays Pulcinella quasi-heroic retinue revel backgrounds revue play ritual revels Roman mime Rome Saint satirical satyr play scene season sense sometimes sophisticated story of buffo structure struggle suggest survived Terence texts Théâtre Theoproprides tion Toschi traced tradition transformation typically unit of material vols vulgar comedy wife wooing plays young