Fictional Characters

Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne, the…

Columbine  is a stock character in the Commedia dell'Arte. She is the mistress of Harlequin's mistress, a comic servant and wife of Pierrot. Rudlin and Crick use the Italian spelling…