The Masks of the Piazza: Commedia dell’Arte and the Birth of Modern Theater
In the summer of 1545, a group of professional performers signed a contract in Padua that would change the history of theater. The tradition they inaugurated — the Commedia dell’Arte — gave us Arlecchino, Pantalone, Colombina, and the Innamorati. It also gave us Molière, Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers. This is the story of the masks that invented modern comedy.
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