Bouffon
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Bouffon
history of court jester/clown/fool?
“clowns could not by law speak, a condition that prevailed until 1860”
there was a genre theatre (the remaining open theaters were forced to produce shows of a certain genre or they would be shut down) that opened in 1813 that was authorized to produce acrobats, trampoline and tight rope acts. in 1815, they expanded to harlequinade-mime shows ON THE
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“Nothing does us as much good as the fool’s cap: we need it against ourselves,”1 writes the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900). The “fool” destroys by laughing at values and truths, showing the chaotic and senseless world behind them. The fool is a manifestation of the Dionysian, an essential chaotic and destructive drive, but one
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“an undercurrent of cruelty characterizes most clown interludes, rendered harmless and funny in the same way cruelty is ameliorated in a cartoon, through our knowledge that the blows are not real. a clown looking for a job asks to be seen by the director - who is absent. … much of this reflect’s the clown’s life as well as that of the audience.”
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