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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG |
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HARLEQUIN , in modern
character who gives his name to the " harlequinade," attired in mask and parti-coloured and spangled tights, and provided with a sword like a bat, by which, himself invisible, he works wonders. It has generally been assumed that Harlequin was transferred to France from the "Arlecchino" of Italian medieval and Renaissance popular comedy; but Dr Driesen in his Ursprung des Harlekins (Berlin, 1904) shows that this is incorrect. An old French " Harlekin " (Herlekin, Hellequin and other variants) is found in folk-literature as early as 1100; he had already become proverbial as a ragamuffin of a demoniacal appearance and character ; in 1262 a number of harlekins appear in a play by Adam
Halle
Morgan
Gottsched
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