Commedia dell'arte was initially characterised by the absence of a script with characters endowed with personality, organised instead by mostly stereotypical plots and professional actors playing fixed characters, usually masks. Goldoni instead introduced the modern use of a well-defined and structured script, where actors played real characters with their own life, character and personality. Thus, different stories come onto the scene, with new characters such as gondoliers, innkeepers, merchants, salesmen, nobles, fishermen, washerwomen, massère (house servants): these are some of the pro
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