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[[Harlequin]] is the name of one of the best known characters from the Italian ''commedia dell'arte''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27arte]. It also occurs as, and in, the title of plays and performances, often referred to as "harlequinades"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequinade]  
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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''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27arte]. It also occurs as, and in, the title of plays and performances, often referred to as "harlequinades"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequinade]  
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It is the source of the word [[Harlekyn]] ("clown") in [[Afrikaans]]. 
  
 
=[[Harlequin]] the character=
 
=[[Harlequin]] the character=
  
Originally [[Arlecchino]] in Italian, but became [[Harlequin]] in French
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Originally [[Arlecchino]] in Italian, but became [[Harlequin]] in French.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 17:01, 14 November 2016

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]

It is the source of the word Harlekyn ("clown") in Afrikaans.

Harlequin the character

Originally Arlecchino in Italian, but became Harlequin in French.

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

Harlequinesque Pantomime

Oud tot Jong Gemaald, of De Krommesprongen van Harlequin

Par a Par, a Gar a Nous, or Harlequin Protected by the Magician

Harlequin Pantomime

Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday

Three Witches, or Harlequin Reanimated

Harlequin and the Magic Donkey

Harlequin ABC.

Arlequin Afficheur

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. 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[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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