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Harlequin is the name of one of the best known of the servant characters (zanni) from the Italian commedia dell'arte[1].
Originally Arlecchino in Italian, becoming Arlequin in French, Harlequin in English, Harlekijn or Arlekyn in Dutch and Harlekyn in Afrikaans.
Based on Harlekijn in Dutch it is the source of the noun harlekyn, meaning "clown", in Afrikaans (Alternative Afrikaans words for clown are hanswors, nar and paljas).
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Harlequin the character
Harlequinades and pantomimes containing the name performed in South Africa
The name also occurs as, and in, the title of plays and performances, often referred to as "harlequinades"[2] or "pantomimes".
Click on the appropriate title below to go to the particular entry:
Harlequin and Mother Goose, or The Golden Egg
Oud tot Jong Gemaald, of De Krommesprongen van Harlequin
Par a Par, a Gar a Nous, or Harlequin Protected by the Magician
Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday
Three Witches, or Harlequin Reanimated
Harlequin and the Magic Donkey
Arlequin, of De Gelukkige Visscher
Arlequin Protégé par Belphégor
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27arte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequinade
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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