"Harlequin: Servant of Two Masters," which opens Friday at Franklin & Marshall College's Green Room Theatre, is a classic Italian play based on the stock characters of Commedia dell' Arte.

“Harlequin, Refined by Love” was an unlikely choice of play for a budding director: Written in 1720 by Pierre de Marivaux, a master of romantic comedy, it taps heavily into the commedia dell ...

The old commedia dell’arte, the drama hat set the patterns for Harlequin, Columbine, Pierrot and Pantaloon, is a favorite subject for romantic poets, water color painters, and lecturers on The ...

Commedia dell’arte can be traced back to ... Italy looking up at the brightly colored diamond-patterned garb of the Harlequin, we too are gripped and guffaw at the gang comprising Henson ...

Harlequin, an indomitable figure of Italy's Commedia dell'arte, served as an enduring muse for Piero Fornasetti. Inspired by Picasso's renditions of Harlequins in their distinctive costumes, ...