Commedia dell’arte was a prime influence to Shakespeare’s work as it’s known as a “comedy of professional players,” reached its height in Italy between the late 1560s and the 1650s, its so-called golden age. In has many factors in which Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’ and ‘Commedia dell’arte’ as they are both comedies and require similar amounts of actors and characteristics for each individual. Moreover it depends on their fortunes, the professional troupes generally had about eight to ten performers, each of whom played a half-masked stock character, like Pantelone or Harlequin, or an unmasked lover, throughout his or her career. Naturally, over the long period of its performance, more than 200 years, commedia dell’arte troupes, of varying
