• A canovaccio is a scenario used by commedia dell'arte players. It consisted only of a list of acts and scenes; the details were left to the improvisation...
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  • was literally pinned to the back of the scenery. It is also known as canovaccio or "that which is pinned to the canvas" of which the scenery was constructed...
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    off-stage, like "[Thunder]". Wikimedia Commons has media related to Theatre. Canovaccio Closet drama Drama Dramatis personæ Playwright Staged reading Theatre...
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    a repertoire of established characters with a rough storyline, called canovaccio. Plays did not originate from written drama but from scenarios called...
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    Sabbath. Stores that supplied the masks include both Ca' Macana and Il Canovaccio in Venice. The 9th Sequence of the story of Assassin's Creed II is also...
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    had a list of possible scenarios, each with a very basic plot, called a canovaccio, and throughout would perform physical-comedy acts known as lazzi (from...
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    represented commedia dell'arte. Based on the actors' improvisation and on canovaccio, it was characterized by a large number of stereotyped characters who...
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    were played in the style of Commedia dell'arte with improvisation over a canovaccio (a vague plot outline). He began to write full, five-act comedies in verse...
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    a repertoire of established characters with a rough storyline, called canovaccio. Plays did not originate from written drama but from scenarios called...
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  • effect was indeed relevant. In theatre, censorship caused a revival of "canovaccio" and Commedia dell'arte given that all the stories had to obtain prior...
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