Sonnets of the Commedia dell'Arte

A collection fourteen sets of fourteen interlinked, classical sonnets (a 'heroic crown of crowns'), adapting fourteen Commedia dell'Arte scenarios from Flaminio Scala's 1611 compendium, Il Teatro delle Favole Rappresentative (A Theatrical Repertory of Fables).

Commedia dell'Arte is a type of improvisational theater that started (probably) in Venice in the 1400 or 1500s. The actors portray certain archetypal stock characters already familiar to the audience, and then starting from a very gen...