Wheres my favorite Commedia dellArte character/Why is Harlequin so weird?
i Sebastiani specializes in recreating a certain period in the early history of Commedia dell’Arte, roughly “the beginning” (c. 1550) until about 1610. Several of the Commedia dell’Arte characters that are well-known today (Pulcinella, Pierrot, and Columbina) weren’t created until after our area of focus. The sweet, somewhat surreal clown, Harlequin, grew out of our own foolish and bestial Arlecchino.
