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Commedia dell'arte character
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pantalone
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Pantalone , spelled Pantaloon in English, is one of the most important principal characters found in commedia dell'arte . With his exceptional greed and status at the top of the social order, Pantalone is "money" in the commedia world. His full name, including ...
Usage examples of pantalone.
The Donne Furlane was the piece, a comedy of art as they call it here-- or, as we say, a comedy of masks--wherein the stock characters of Harlequin, Columbine, Brighella and Pantalone are given a rag of a plot, and are expected to embroider that with follies, drolleries and obscenities according as their humour of the moment may dictate.
According to the plot of the play, Pantalone is an old merchant of Rimini who arrives in Venice with his family.
Il Zoppo was down there, attempting celebrative back flips that were more like lanky pratfalls, and also the Madonna of the Organs and Count Agnello Ziani-Ziani Orseolo and all his bizarre retinue, the Count tipping back his mask and laughing the fierce strident laugh of the Venetian Lion-Planter, Pantalone the Magnificent.
The characters are Arlecchino, Pantalone, Doctor Graziano, Brighella, Isabella, Lelio and others.
So he went and bought himself a drip-dry green camisa, a pair of cheap grey pantalones, and a very light americana or jacket of fawn Moygashel.