In plautus s comedies for example female slaves turn out to be naughty and always prone to suggest a ruse to their mistresses.
Commedia dell arte masks colombina.
Her italian name means little dove.
Columbine italian colombina stock theatrical character that originated about 1530 in italian commedia dell arte as a saucy and adroit servant girl.
Colombina colombina is a servetta.
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Columbine italian colombina is a stock theatrical character that originated in about 1530 as a saucy and adroit servant girl.
She is usually employed by one of the innamorata or vecchi but she takes pleasure in annoying them.
She is smart crafty and observant.
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Columbina in italian colombina meaning little dove.
She is harlequin s mistress a comic servant playing the tricky slave type and wife of pierrot.
In french theatre the character became a lady s maid and intrigant and assumed a variety of roles opposite cassandre pantalone pantaloon harlequin and pierrot.
The half mask was designed to accommodate her.
Her italian name means little dove her costume included a cap and apron but seldom a commedia mask and she usually spoke in the tuscan dialect.
Who was basically the female counterpart of the bauta.
In french and english colombine is a stock character in the commedia dell arte.
After digging a little deeper one finds out that her roots lie in latin comedy.
The colombina is a half face mask with heavy decoration.
The role of the female servant was originally that of an entr acte dancer.
In french theatre the character became a lady s maid and intrigant and assumed a variety of roles opposite cassandre pantalone pantaloon harlequin and pierrot.
She loves and lusts for men.
Colombina was an early commedia dell arte actress in the 15th century whose vanity made her reluctant to camouflage her beauty behind a mask.
Columbina in italian colombina meaning little dove.
Her costume is usually simple representing what maids wore in the 1700s.
Her name though appeared for the first time in 1530 in italy in the texts written by the accademici intronati of siena the stunned academicals.
Colombina sees through the schemes and unravels them tricking the antagonist in the process.
Her costume included a cap and apron but seldom a commedia mask and she usually spoke in the tuscan dialect.
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Colombina made a name for herself as a mask of the commedia dell arte quite late namely in the 17th century in france.
In historical perspective the mask takes its name from a maidservant.
