How to pronounce“commedia”in English

“The second approach is to plunge the spectator unapologetically into the world of the commedia without any realistic setting to frame it. This approach offers the commedia as a fantasy world, an escape into a theatrical dream (or nightmare) inhabited commedia characters, usually reduced to a stock few centred around the Pierrot-Harlequin-Columbine triangle. Examples of this type of commedia include Dowson’s Pierrot of the Minute, Schnitzler’s Der Schleier der Pierrette, Hennique and Huysman’s Pierrot sceptique, and Laforgue’s Pierrot fumiste. Commedias of this type generally take the form of a lyrical fantasy, an intimate expression of the poet that may or may not be intended for the stage, and the form contains a strong tendency towards wordless pantomime and ballet. Both the approaches to the use of commedia in the modern theatre that I have sketched here can be found in Russian plays of the period.”