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This is a typical sacred representation from the
1700s, of jesuitical and controreformist inspiration. In those time,
however, the population grew bored easily watching this type of
representation and so masked - characters where introduced into the
story to provoke laughter, like Razzullo and Sarchiapone, popular
characters like the fisherman, the shepherds, the hunter, the
innkeeper.. |
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Thus Mary and Joseph’s trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem is enriched by adventures and dangers caused by various demons like Satan, Belfagor and Astarotte and thwarted by the
Archangel Gabriel. It is the triumph of good over evil around this main theme a series of episodes unravels, with no real cohesion, in an alternation of situation going from grotesque to comic to sad to joyous. In this way the spectator is certain not to be bored. |
