2. What are the stock characters of “commedia dell’arte”? Compare these “archetypes” to the characters in I soliti ignoti [Big Deal on Madonna Street].

The stock characters of commedia dell’ arte were the quack doctor, the star-crossed lovers, the clever servant, the shyster lawyer, the braggart soldier, the shrewd peasant, and the professor from Bologna (Bondanella & Pacchioni, 2017, p. 186). These archetypes characters from the traditional comedy Italian films were different from the characters of I soliti ignoti [Big Deal on Madonna Street] (Criterion Creeps, 2018), because these characters focused on showing comedy as a rosy picture with a cynical sense of humour displaying human drive to survive in overwhelming situations (Bondanella & Pacchioni, 2017, p. 186).