Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala by Natalie Crohn Schmitt

Author:Natalie Crohn Schmitt [Crohn Schmitt, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: DRA006000, HIS020000, HIS037020, LIT004200, PER011020
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2014-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

The primary reason for the entrance of Orazio and Arlecchino at this point is to provide more exposition, from which Flavio’s mad performance provided a break. The relationship between Orazio and Arlecchino and their relationship to Graziano must be established, perhaps by their entrance from the house.

There was evidently no perceptible distinction between real and pretended madness. Information concerning Flavio’s pretended madness and Orazio’s honourable intentions seem not to have been presented in a prologue. We learn it here. The audience has already deduced that Orazio is the father of Flaminia’s child. We have yet to learn why Flavio pretended madness.

Again, time between the summer at the villa, when Flavio told Arlecchino he was faking madness, and the present seems compressed.

4. PEDROLINO

that the physician wants to see Flaminia’s urine; he says this to Orazio, who worries that the physician will discover her pregnancy. Orazio: that he would like to speak to her. Pedrolino goes inside to have her urinate. They remain; at that

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