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1.Masks help with the performance and practice of Commedia because they help bring the characters to life. Commedia masks make a statement to the audience from the moment they are seen on stage.

2.They tell the audience who the character is, their social class, what they will do or won't do, and what their attitudes are. Many of the masked characters in Commedia Dell'arte come from the Lower/Middle class.

3.Characters who embody the upper class, usually the lovers or Innamorati and the lower class female servants do not wear physical headpieces, but their characters are still referred to as "masks."

4. Commedia stock characters tend to introduce themselves as soon as they notice the audience. A comic mask is a nobody and somebody at the same time, the characters seem important even if they are a lowly servant. A mask helps to create the beautiful, extravagant, repulsive, and yet attractiveness of each character. Masks allow the actor to further explore the character. To the audience, the actor's physical movements and embodiment of the stock characters help to establish their character and the mask enhances it.

5. The mask creates the personage of each character and makes them associates the character to their name and movements. It makes them an individual that the audience can easily identify.

Resources
Schmitt, Natalie Crohn. Performing Commedia Dell'Arte, 1580-1630. Routledge, Taylor Et Francis Group, 2020. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/gwu/detail.action?docID=5900110

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology. “13 Things, Commedia Dell'Arte.” Commedia Dell' Arte, Brown University, www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/13things/7731.html.

Duchartre, Pierre Louis. The Italian Comedy. Newburyport: Dover Publications, 2012. Print.

Reference: Italy: Commedia dell'arte: Pantelone's mask. Artstor, library-artstor-org.proxygw.wrlc.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822003063888 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ariellenoam99 (talk • contribs) 04:32, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Making Commedia Masks
The process of working with leather to build Commedia Masks is relatively extensive. To begin, leather is first soaked for a 48 hours minimum. The leather is then draped over a base molded to the shape of a face. Once it is placed the leather is stretched by the artist's hands or a smooth wooden tool. The shaping is repeated continuously and the artist continues pushing it into the crevices formed by the mold. After the artist has manipulated the leather to it's desired shape it is then dried. Drying the mask can be achieved in two ways: with a heat source (even a hairdryer in the modern day) or for an extensive air-drying period. Once the leather is completely dry the artist then applies a hardening agent.