The national generic and Italian-specific foreign language standards support the inclusion of Italian comedy in Italian curricula. Italian comedy provides authentic spoken language, listening practice, exposure to dialects, and offers opportunities to talk about or write about comedy scenarios, characters, the masks, or themes in a comedy. Italian comedy is rich in contextualized cultural themes including regional aspects of Italy, and northern and southern Italian issues. Italian comedy supports interdisciplinary study linking theatre arts with music, visual arts, language, history, geography, culture, sociology, and other disciplines. Specific Italian comedy works can be compared to other Italian comedy works or American comedy in terms of plot, story, setting, characters, or themes.
Italian comedy encourages use and exposure to language within societal contexts.
Content Standard 6. Comparing and integrating art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts and new art forms. Content Standard 7. Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions. Content Standard 8.