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	Stock character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mimus calvus resembled Maccus, the buffoon from the fabula atellana or Atellan Farce.
		The Atellan Farce is highly significant in the study of the Character in that it contained the first true stock characters.
		Most likely having descended from the Atellan Farce and the Greek and Roman mime, commedia began with four stock characters, first known as magnifichi (magnificent ones) and zanni (slaves), later receiving the names Pantalone, Dottore, Arlechino, and Scapino/Brighella.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stock_character (8561 words)

	Chapter 12
		The atellan farce or the fabulla atellena is the indigenous and a highly competitive Etruscan style of comedy.
		The atellan farce is a short farce that uses stock characters, and an improvised dialogue based on simple plots of trickery.
		The atellan farce is speculated to be the early dramatic form of comedy that develops into the Commedia dell ‘Arte movement in the Italian Renaissance.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /thea101/Chapters/chapter_12.htm (1047 words)

	Farce
		In staged farce there is usually only one setting throughout the play, often the drawing room of a family home which has numerous doors (and possibly French windows) leading to bedrooms, the kitchen, cupboards, and the garden.
		Farce in general is highly tolerant of transgressive behavior, and tends to depict human beings as vain, irrational, venal, infantile, and prone to automatism.
		Farce is, in fact, not merely a genre but a highly flexible dramatic mode that often occurs in combination with other forms, including romantic comedy.
	www.culturecentric.com /Literary-F/Farce.php (635 words)

	413 Roman Theatre, Classical Drama and Theatre
		But if Atellan farce resembles anything in theatre history, it is no form of ancient drama but commedia dell'arte of the modern age, a type of comedy which arose in late Renaissance Italy and achieved widespread popularity across Europe.
		For instance, the physical resemblance of Dossenus from Atellan farce and Pulcinella from commedia dell'arte, both with large, hooked noses and bowed posture, is particularly striking.
		Given all this and the tradition of mask-wearing in Atellan farce, logic dictates that the Roman stage did indeed call for masks in performance, though the evidence is far from conclusive.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/131romtheatre.htm (4396 words)

	La farce, la farce, as farce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Scandal of Scientology / Prologue: The Tragi-Farce of Scientology.
		A bedroom farce is a type of light drama, centered on the sexual pairings andrecombinations.
		Kerry reportedly backed up his belief that the US "democracy is a farce" by citingstatistics showing that only 25 percent of those eligible to vote in the.
	www.account-payable.net /farce/la_farce.html (880 words)

	Roman History Books and More: Atellan farces
		Atellan farces, Atellanae, were the Roman equivalent of commedia dell'arte of the modern age.
		They seem to have been atellans, a form which sometime in the past had provided a vent for histrionic high spirits of the ruling classes.
		More on Atellan farces, named after the Oscan town of Atella, "[featuring] the 'crazy' people who lived in Atella, a place where things were purported to happen backwards", can be read at ROMAN DRAMA, Chapter 13: Early Roman Drama and Theatre*.
	romanhistorybooks.typepad.com /roman_history_books_and_m/2006/03/atellan_farces_.html (543 words)

	Atellan farce - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Atellan farce
		Theatre performance popular in ancient Rome (a type of farce).
		Atellan farces were named after the town of Atella, near Capua, north of Naples.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Atellan+farce (161 words)

	Comedy - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Farce, for example, seeks to deflate the pretension and hypocrisy of contemporary society, using broad physical means, such as slapstick humour or clowning, and emphasizing circumstances and environment over character development.
		While farce and satire both often produce laughter, their dramatic outcomes on stage can vary considerably.
		Other influences on their productions were Roman mimes, who typically performed risqué routines, and a southern Italian tradition known as Atellan farce.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761595326__1/Comedy.html (1701 words)

	Comedy
		Atellanæ Fabulæ (Atellan Fables, Atellan Farce, Fabula Atellana), also known as Oscan Games (Ludi osci), were a collection of theatrical pieces of low or buffoonish comedy popular in Ancient Rome.
		A bedroom farce is a type of light drama, centered on the sexual pairings and recombinations of characters as they move through improbable plots.
		The bedroom farce is perhaps the most common form of farce.
	www.shortopedia.com /C/O/Comedy (1390 words)

	The farce of, la farce, as farce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		the farce of A bedroom farce is a type of light drama, centered on the sexual pairings andrecombinations.
		The Atellan farce was an early type of Romandramatic entertainment that lasted even into the Imperial period.
		Whatever the reason for the farce, Federer won his third match of the Red Groupcondemning Coria to a long flight back to Argentina with only an appearance.
	www.account-payable.net /farce/the_farce_of.html (843 words)

	Theodor Mommsen History of Rome - The Revolution Page 193
		The Latin farce with its fixed characters and standing jests needed a permanent scenery: the fool- world everywhere seeks for itself a local habitation.
		The close and original connection, which Livy in particular represents as subsisting between the Atellan farce and the -satura- with the drama thence developed, is not at all tenable.
		The drama arose out of the flute-piece, which at first without any recitation was confined merely to song and dance, then acquired a text (-satura-), and lastly obtained through Andronicus a libretto borrowed from the Greek stage, in which the old flute-lays occupied nearly the place of the Greek chorus.
	italian.classic-literature.co.uk /history-of-rome/04-the-revolution/ebook-page-193.asp (776 words)

	Comedy: Terminology and Types
		Playwrights of the Atellan farces were Pomponius, with 70 different titles along with fragments amounting to about 200 lines, and Novius, with 44 titles and fragments resulting in roughly 100 lines
		Several farces could be performed on the same day, framing another play, and often these plays had titles to show the relationship
		Maccus is a famous farce character whose name seems to come from a Greek word that means "stupid".
	latin.agnesscott.edu /Roman_Comedy/roman_comic_plays.htm (867 words)

	SJC Pompeii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Another is that at this level of performance the element of improvisation tended to be high and the demarcation lines correspondingly fluid.
		If we accept the distinctions made by classical writers, at least three well known types of entertainment were certainly presented in the Theatre at Pompeü: the Atellan Farce, the Mime, and the Pantomime.
		Like the Atellan Farce, the Mime had a brief literary vogue in late Republican Rome; but it was really, and it remained, a sub-literary form, deriving its vitality and lasting popularity precisely from its impromptu adaptability to the changing demands of local taste and of contemporary fashion.
	www.joeys.org /intranet/pompeii/theatre/theatre.htm (2402 words)

	The Commedia dell'Arte Its Origins, Development & Influence on the Ballet
		As with the Masks of the Commedia dell'Arte, the Atellan farce never portrayed true individuals, but rather stock characers, each wearing a typical Mask and costume: Pappus, the senile old codger, forerunner to Pantalone in his lascivity (Duchartre); Maccus, the hang-dog souffre-douleur; Dossenus, the wiley, intrigant hunchback; Bucco, the rude blunderer.
		Besides the stock characters of the Atellan farce were monstrous beings: Lamia, the gossipy intrigant, Manducus, the glutton, who is related, in part, both to Plautus' Miles Gloriosus (boastful soldier) and to the Capitan in the Commedia dell'Arte (Duchartre).
		Not its dramaturgy, in its manner of telling a comedy or farce, that was certainly most crude, lies the significance of the Commedia dell'Arte's approach to theatre, but rather in the extraordinary vocabulary of gesture, in its rich lexicon of "tricks" and movements that allowed a vast range of emotion to be conveyed.
	auguste.vestris.free.fr /Essays/Commedia.html (5650 words)

	Detail Page
		The Atellan Farce, or Atellana, was noteworthy, not only as comedy but also as a composition form with definite characters and traits.
		Again named after a cloak, or toga, this comedy was a departure from the Hellenic mold, for the stories, characters and atmosphere were Italian.
		Thus, two different styles of comedy co-existed, the Greek and the Italian, represented by the Atellan Farce and satire.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME1701 (1023 words)

	Atella--Comedy Central
		Those terms are used to describe a form of Roman farce based on vulgar, low-brow, coarse life in the outback—bumpkin comedy.
		Interestingly, although we say "Roman" farce, the Atellan Fables were originally performed in the Oscan language, not Latin, which means that the Romans took the idea from someone and somewhere else—the Oscans of the town of Atella, well south of the early Roman sphere of influence.
		Exactly where the Atellan Fables came from as a form of improvised Oscan theater is still debated.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/naples/atella.htm (1050 words)

	F Words
		In Rome the term included several types of plays including: the fabula atellanae, or atellan farce, an early form of folk-based drama; fabula palliata, which were based on translations from earlier Greek texts; and fabula togata, which was a more topical, native type of drama, such as those written by Plautus.
		Farce has its antecedents in Greek satyr plays, the Roman fabula atellanae, and in other native, pastoral drama.
		It is, however, a higher form of theatre than burlesque, retaining elements of insight into the human situation.
	www.tctwebstage.com /f_words.htm (559 words)

	Detail Page
		Atellan farces (fabulae Atellanae) were named after the town of Atella and were apparently popular at Rome from the 3rd century
		and was a dramatic performance acted by men and women, which ousted Atellan farce.
		The mimes were basically farces that developed into licentious farces and contributed to the decline of comedy.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAR0454 (341 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Both were characterized by the broadest farce and great looseness of construction; both were brief one-act pieces and served as interludes or conclusions to other forms of spectacle.
		The Atellan was of Italian origin and contained four stock characters, Pappus the old man or pantaloon, Dossennus the wise man, corresponding to the _dottore_ of modern Italian popular comedy, Bucco the clown, and Maccus the fool.
		Maccus appeared as a young girl, as a soldier, as an innkeeper; Pappus became engaged to be married; Bucco turned gladiator; and in the rough and tumble of these old friends the Roman mob found rich food for laughter.[86] The mime was of a very similar character, but freer in point of form.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/7pagp10.txt (17839 words)

	The World of Mime Theatre * Library * History of Mime
		And these same traditions and this mimic spirit would be revived when they fused with one of the richest theatre forms in Europe, the commedia dell'arte.
		The scenarios are short and simple and the action flexible enough to allow the actor freedom to improvise, mime, and clown.
		This improvisational element is reinforced by the use of inserted bits of comical stock business, similar to the tricae of Atellan farce, called lazzi.
	www.mime.info /history-lust.html (1940 words)

	MT study guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Definitions: You will be asked to define certain terms that have come up (I have posted a couple of lists on the website; you should consult Gladiators and Caesars for additional terms) and be able to comment on the significance of these terms to their spectacle context.
		For example, if you were asked to define “Atellan Farce” you should not only write “comedic drama with masks and stock characters” but also comment on the fact that these appear to have been native Italian dramas that perhaps influenced Roman comedy with its stock characters.
		You’ll be asked to comment on passages from your course reader (and in some cases you may be asked to identify the passage’s author and the work from which it was taken).
	www.bol.ucla.edu /~cchinnhr/MTStudy.htm (316 words)

	Plautus, Titus Maccius History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His gentilician or family name, Maccius or Maccus (the manuscripts are unclear), was very probably made up as a joke on the Roman nobility with prestigious family names like Julius and Claudius.
		There was a typical character named "Maccus," a clown, in the native Italic dramatic genre known as Atellan farce.
		Though Plautus was born a free citizen, his popular biography told that he was a slave who had been a performer in Atellan farce and mime, and who then came to Rome as a freedman and rose to greatness on the comic stage.
	www.bookrags.com /history/arthistory/plautus-titus-maccius-ahe-02 (825 words)

	Who was Who in Roman Times: Index of Subjects: Atellan farce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Who was Who in Roman Times: Index of Subjects: Atellan farce
		These were "the old national drama immediately connected with the festive worship of the people in which it took its rise and which therefore retained a respectability which could be conceded to the performances of foreign histriones.
		Being free from all contact with the professional actor, the young Roman could appear in the Atellan play without any forfeiture of his social position." -- Donaldson, Varronianus, p.
	www.romansonline.com /Subjects_L.asp?Icode=4975 (96 words)

	Punch Around The World
		Punch is accepted everywhere as the traditional puppet of Britain, or, to be more correct, of England, but through the ages other puppets who have much in common with Punch have come into being around the world.
		Perhaps they all have a common ancestor, Vidusake, of Ancient India, Dossennus-Manducus of the Atellan Farce, perhaps the basic ingredients of buffoonery are common throughout the world.
		Certainly since earliest times a humped back and a pot-belly have been thought funny; many court jesters were hunchbacks.
	www.punchandjudy.com /patw.htm (2527 words)

	Roman Comedy (mid 3rd cent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Origins: plots and characters of Greek New Comedy, influenced by traditional forms of early Italian comedy
		Atellan farce (Fabula Atellana): farcical plots of cheating and trickery, rustic setting and themes, use of word-play and obscenity, stock characters with masks
		Fescennine verses: recitation of alternating verses of scurrilous, obscene abuse and banter at rural festivals
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~jburgess/cla160burg/outlines/romcom.html (291 words)

	Mime praise dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater TodayThe theatre itself was dominated by mime/ Atellan in farce, comedy, a musical form of precisely because of the long history of different forms of dance,
	mime-praise-dance.jmr2.com (1361 words)

	Euripides' Cyclops
		Satyr play as comic relief at the end of a tragic trilogy
		Roman tragedy followed by Atellan farce (Bucco the clown, etc.)
		Note: The Alcestis was also presented as the #4 play of the day, in lieu of the satyr play
	classics.uc.edu /~johnson/tragedy/cyclops.html (717 words)

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