The Commedia Dell'arte. a Study in Italian Popular Comedy
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Bigal, Theatre frangais, etc., passim) but Italy and Spain offer particularly- close resemblances. "^Eennert, Spanish Stage, passim. - ;^. THE COMMEDIA DELL'aBTE 167 actors who gave so much to it and in turn learned much from it.** i Ganassa's repertory in Madrid, 1574,** was, ac- cording to a contemporary, j"comedias mimicas . . . y buf one seas," "trivial a^id popular," containing "the persons of Arlecchinq, Pant^one, the Doctor," improvised pieces undoubtedlyy*^ The next year Ganassa lent mo...ney toward building a public theater in Seville where he engaged tc/ give sixty perform- ances; whether because he T^as involved in this financial venture or because he found Spain a lucra- tive field for his efforts, he returned several times with his company and seems always to have fotmd a ready welcome. Others of his coixntrymen followed him to Madrid, — an Italian acrobat with his tumblers in 1582, "the new Italians" later ia the same year,** and in 1587-8 the brothers, Tristano and Drusiano Martinelli, with Madonna Angelica, wife of the latter.*^ MartineUi's company was quite "^ Spanish and Italian actors played side by side in other countries as well as in Spain, cf.
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