Harlequin

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Harlequin is the name of the best known character from the Italian Commedia dell'arte. It also occurs as, and in, the title of plays and performances, often referred to as "harlequinades"[1]

Harlequin the character

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequinade


Harlequinades and pantomimes containing the name

See:

Harlequin the pantomime (below)

Harlequin and Mother Goose, or The Golden Egg

Harlequinesque Pantomime


Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequinade


Harlequin the pantomime

Harlequin is the name given to a pantomimic work by an unknown author performed in Cape Town. Nothing is known of the original text for this performance.

Performances in South Africa

1847: According to F.C.L. Bosman (1928: p. 434) a "laughing pantomime[2]" simply called Harlequin (sic) was performed in Buitekant Street, Cape Town by The Italian Circus of Signor Severo and Signor Dalle Case. Nothing more is known about it.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 434.

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