Meanings of commedia dell in English

Some of the throng appear to have escaped from a commedia dell'arte troupe.

We'll improvise around any situation that comes up-we ,thecommedia dell'arte players of the Old West.

Along the way, Carpenter establishes a series of conventions that are now as honoured as once were the rules of commedia dell'arte.

Throwing poses such as scary bears and harlequins, he comes on like a commedia dell'arte performer trying to ruin a perfectly good funk-pop band.

Now, in 1919, Diaghilev was sniffing out another potential winner in the form of a ballet around the stock Pulcinella character from Italian commedia dell'arte.