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62 relations: "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, Actor, Adam de la Halle, Arlecchino (opera), Bayeux, Bel canto, Bologna, Cartwheel (gymnastics), Charles Dibdin the younger, Charles Sterling, Clown, Columbina, Comédie-Italienne, Commedia dell'arte, Domino mask, Erlking, Flip (acrobatic), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, France, Giambattista Andreini, Harlequinade, Harley Quinn, Henry IV of France, Herla, Innamorati, Italian language, Jester, John Rich (producer), Joseph Grimaldi, L'Île des esclaves, Louis XIV of France, Mantua, Mr. Harley Quin, Nationalmuseum, Normandy, Old French, Orderic Vitalis, Pantomime, Passion Play, Payne Brothers, Pierre de Marivaux, Pierrot, Pulcinella, Punch and Judy, Romantic hero, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Scenario, Soubrette, Stock character, Tatterdemalion, ..., Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Trickster, Tricky slave, Tristano Martinelli, Trivelino, Turin, Vecchio, Victorian era, Wild Hunt, William Payne (pantomimist), Zan Ganassa, Zanni. Expand index (12 more) »
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
"Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" is a science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison.
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Actor
An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.
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Adam de la Halle
Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback) (1245–50 – 1285–88?, or after 1306) was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician.
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Arlecchino (opera)
Arlecchino, oder Die Fenster (Harlequin, or The Windows, is a one-act opera with spoken dialog by Ferruccio Busoni, with a libretto in German, composed in 1913.
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Bayeux
Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France.
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Bel canto
Bel canto (Italian for "beautiful singing" or "beautiful song"), along with a number of similar constructions ("bellezze del canto"/"bell'arte del canto"), is a term relating to Italian singing.
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Bologna
Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Northern Italy.
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Cartwheel (gymnastics)
A cartwheel is a sideways rotary movement of the body.
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Charles Dibdin the younger
Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin (27 October 1768 – 15 January 1833), or Charles Pitt or Charles Dibdin the younger, as he was professionally known, was an English dramatist, composer, writer and theatre proprietor.
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Charles Sterling
Charles Sterling (5 September 1901, Warsaw – 9 January 1991, Paris) was a Polish art historian mainly active in France.
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Clown
Clowns are comic performers who employ slapstick or similar types of physical comedy, often in a mime style.
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Columbina
Columbina (in Italian Colombina, meaning "little dove"; in French and English Colombine) is a stock character in the Commedia dell'Arte.
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Comédie-Italienne
Comédie-Italienne or Théâtre-Italien are French names which have been used to refer to Italian-language theatre and opera when performed in France.
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Commedia dell'arte
(comedy of the profession) was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italy, that was popular in Europe from the 16th through the 18th century.
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Domino mask
A domino mask (from Latin dominus, "lord", and Medieval Latin masca, "specter") is a small, often rounded mask covering only the eyes and the space between them.
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Erlking
"Erlking" (lit) is a name used in German Romanticism for the figure of a spirit or "king of the fairies".
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Flip (acrobatic)
An acrobatic flip is a sequence of body movements in which a person leaps into the air and then rotates one or more times while airborne.
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Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (27 November 1635 – 15 April 1719) was the second wife of King Louis XIV of France.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Giambattista Andreini
Giambattista Andreini (9 February 1576 – 7 June 1654) was an Italian actor and playwright.
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Harlequinade
Harlequinade is a British comic theatrical genre, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "that part of a pantomime in which the harlequin and clown play the principal parts".
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Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Henry IV of France
Henry IV (Henri IV, read as Henri-Quatre; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithet Good King Henry, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.
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Herla
Herla or Herla King (Herla Cyning) is a legendary leader of the mythical Germanic Wild Hunt and the name from which the Old French term Herlequin may have been derived.
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Innamorati
Gli Innamorati (meaning "The Lovers") were stock characters within the theatre style known as Commedia dell'arte, which appeared in 16th century Italy.
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Italian language
Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.
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Jester
A jester, court jester, or fool, was historically an entertainer during the medieval and Renaissance eras who was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain him and his guests.
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John Rich (producer)
John Rich (1692–1761) was an important director and theatre manager in 18th-century London.
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Joseph Grimaldi
Joseph Grimaldi (18 December 1778 – 31 May 1837) was an English actor, comedian and dancer, who became the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era.
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L'Île des esclaves
L’Île des esclaves (Slave Island) is a one act comedy by Pierre de Marivaux.
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Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
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Mantua
Mantua (Mantova; Emilian and Latin: Mantua) is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name.
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Mr. Harley Quin
Harley Quin is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie and the most mysterious of all her detectives.
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Nationalmuseum
Nationalmuseum (or National Museum of Fine Arts) is the national gallery of Sweden, located on the peninsula Blasieholmen in central Stockholm.
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Normandy
Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.
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Orderic Vitalis
Orderic Vitalis (Ordericus Vitalis; 1075 –) was an English chronicler and Benedictine monk who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th- and 12th-century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England.
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Pantomime
Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.
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Passion Play
The Passion Play or Easter pageant (senakulo) is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus Christ: his trial, suffering and death.
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Payne Brothers
Harry Payne (25 November 1833 – 27 September 1895) and Frederick Payne (January 1841 – 27 February 1880) were members of a popular Victorian era of British pantomime entertainers.
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Pierre de Marivaux
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist.
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Pierrot
Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne; the name is a diminutive of Pierre (Peter), via the suffix -ot. His character in contemporary popular culture—in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall—is that of the sad clown, pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin.
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Pulcinella
Pulcinella, a name derived from "pulcino," meaning chick, and "pollastrello," meaning rooster, is a classical character that originated in commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry.
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Punch and Judy
Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular, and usually violent puppet show featuring Pulcinella (Mr. Punch) and his wife Judy.
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Romantic hero
The Romantic hero is a literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has himself (or herself) as the center of his or her own existence.
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Sadler's Wells Theatre
Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue in Clerkenwell, London, England located on Rosebery Avenue.
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Scenario
In the performing arts, a scenario (from Italian: that which is pinned to the scenery; pronounced) is a synoptical collage of an event or series of actions and events.
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Soubrette
A soubrette is a type of operatic soprano voice fach, often cast as a female stock character in opera and theatre.
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Stock character
A stock character is a stereotypical fictional character in a work of art such as a novel, play, or film, whom audiences recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition.
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Tatterdemalion
Tatterdemalion is a fictional character and supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England.
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Trickster
In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphisation), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour.
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Tricky slave
The tricky slave is a stock character.
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Tristano Martinelli
Tristano Martinelli (c. 1556 – 1630), called Dominus Arlecchinorum, the "Master of Harlequins", was an Italian actor in the commedia dell'arte tradition.
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Trivelino
Trivelino (or Trivelin) is a zanni character of the commedia dell'arte.
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Turin
Turin (Torino; Turin) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy.
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Vecchio
Vecchio (plural vecchi, meaning "old one" or simply "old"), is a category of aged, male characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt is a European folk myth involving a ghostly or supernatural group of huntsmen passing in wild pursuit.
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William Payne (pantomimist)
William Henry Schofield Payne (1804–18 December 1878) was an actor and pantomimist who created much of the stage business connected with the character Harlequin.
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Zan Ganassa
Zan Ganassa (c. 1540 – c. 1584) was the stage name of an early actor-manager of Commedia dell'arte, whose company was one of the first to tour outside Italy.
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Zanni
Zanni, Zani or Zane is a character type of Commedia dell'arte best known as an astute servant and trickster.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin
