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acting skills
- In acting: Genuine and feigned emotion
- In acting: The actor’s qualifications and training
commedia dell’arte
- In commedia dell’arte
- In Western theatre: Commedia dell’arte
New Wave cinema
- In François Truffaut: Early works
Western drama
- In dramatic literature: Into the 16th and 17th centuries

Additional Reading

Clive Barker, Theatre Games (1977); John Rudlin, Commedia dell’Arte: An Actor’s Handbook (1994).

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: h2g2 - Theatre Improvisation.	Emily Rodriguez	Apr 28, 2017
	Add new Web site: h2g2 - Theatre Improvisation.	Yamini Chauhan	Mar 02, 2012
	Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Theatre Improvisation.	Yamini Chauhan	Mar 02, 2012
	Article revised and updated.	Richard Pallardy	Nov 06, 2008
	New bibliography added.	Richard Pallardy	Nov 06, 2008
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998