Explanation:
Commedia dell'arte, a traditional Italian form of physical comedy, uses masks and often they appear in Elizabethan and Restoration comedies, where a character might use one as disguise. In Greek theatre the actors all wore exaggerated masks to communicate character.
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "a. a function of the string quartet." In an opera, the standard accompaniment for a recitative is a function of the string quartet. Recitative also refers too the <span>style of delivery in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary.</span>
