The Bumbling Oaf
Il Dottore or the doctor, is a joke about the upperclass who, however much education they receive, still can't understand anything. His rhetoric is saturated by a tremendous lexicon that incorporates profuse latin jargon ad nauseam, which although sounds impressive is mostly word vomit these rant tend to not
carry any real meaning. He can rant for so long that other characters would have to pull him, or ridicule him off stage. He is an obese old man dressed in a scholarly fashion, already his image is a great r
eflection of Pantalone who is lean and is in practically a night gown and slippers. I'll Dottore and Pantalone balance each other's characters, while the fat geezer talks the skinnier one acts with his wallet. They can play rivals, or friends it does not matter they always find a way to use one another for
their own advantages.
The Doctor can be a father to a lover and a master to a servant character. He is one of the highest status characters and other masks will go to him for advice, which is generally terrible but maybe followed bit the more stupid, naive, and/or desperate. Taking advice from The Doctor will tend to lead to a lazzi and a humiliated servant perhaps by an enema.
He is consistently pacing and speaks at just the right pace so that you can hear him breath heavily between phases, he can address the audience in this way when he feels the need to educate them on a topic. He, and Colombina are perhaps the only characters capable of giving something along the lines of a prologue or an introduction to the performance. Due to his characteristics he may provide lengthy expositions, but this tends to become an obstacle to the plot.
