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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]. It also occurs as, and in, the title of plays and performances, often referred to as "harlequinades"[2]
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Harlequin the character
Originally Arlecchino in Italian, but became Arlequin in French and Harlequin in English. It became Harlekijn in Dutch and is the source of the noun harlekyn, meaning "clown", in Afrikaans (Alternative Afrikaans words are hanswors, nar and paljas).
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27arte
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
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
Brief vir die Harlekyn ("Letter for the harlequin")
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 in the mid 19th century. Nothing more is known of the original text or the performance.
Performances in South Africa
1847: According to F.C.L. Bosman (1928: p. 434) a "laughing pantomime[3]" 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. [4]: pp. 434.
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