Commedia Dell Arte Quotes

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack!

If you recognize that the person you love deserves your love, will your soul to suffer some.” Carlo Goldoni – The Lovers

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to understand it.

I really don’t get this whole oranges thing. It’s like, does he want to eat them or go out with them?

The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.

Slapstick was named after the battacio, or 'slap stick,' which made a dramatic popping sound when actors hit one another with it and which was used in the Commedia dell'arte, an Italian stage tradition whose blend of stereotype, sketch and shtick was passed down through circus and pantomime to vaudeville and burlesque and into cinema

CREONTA: Rope! My rope! Hang those two thieves by the neck until they are dead. THE ROPE: Alack, but vile and ill-natured female! Upon wherein did thine affections tarry when I didst but lie here and rot for many a year? Nay, but those fellows tooketh care to remove the wetness that didst plagueth me of late and hath laid me upon the cool ground to revel in a state of dryness. Nay, I wouldst not delay them in their noble course for all thine base and bestial howling. CREONTA: Then, you, dearest donkey, precious beast of burden, tear those two apart and eat their flesh! DONKEY: Nay, but alas for many a season didst you but keep the food of the tummy from me and my mouth when it was that I required it of you. These fine gentlemen of fortune didst but give me carrots of which to partake which I did most verily and forthsoothe with merriment. I havest decided that thou dost suck most verily and no longer will I layth the smackth down in thine name but will rather let such gentlemen as these go free of themselves. TRUFFALDINO: [To the audience.] Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

Les écrivains qui se voient plus importants que monsieur et madame tout le monde parce qu'ils ont pondu un ou deux ou dix livres; Les écrivains qui croient que leurs œuvres vont changer le monde; Les écrivains qui pensent que tout ce qu'ils écrivent est digne de lecture; Les écrivains qui se regardent trop dans le miroir et qui se trouvent toujours beaux; Les écrivains qui pensent que la vérité absolue se trouve dans leurs mots; Les écrivains qui ne tolèrent pas une pincée de critique, même positive; ..... Les écrivains qui se la pètent trop... me font trop rire. Pardonnez-leur Seigneur, ils ne savent pas... que tout cela n'est qu'une scène ratée de la Commedia dell arte. (21 Oct 2015, FB)