Commedipedia - Index of Topics

This will be a messy space as I try to get this brain-baby created. I always have had half-cooked ideas, notebooks full of thoughts, screenshots and saved web pages of content I’m interested in, excited to share, wanting to fully realize. I’m going to try and complete a few thoughts and see if it comes together into something that can help or even inspire others. Or, at the very least, scratch my brain/productivity itch.

Topics

Characters: I want to compile a full list of all the characters I can find. We often only think of the same popular 12 or so characters, but there were hundreds, maybe even more, that were recorded from when Commedia dell’arte first reared its masked head. I will compile everything historical, then move into contemporary characters as well.

Costumes

Women in Commedia dell’Arte

Canovacci

Lazzi

Archetypes