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Humor - 5 / 12 / 2002
Buffo
mastery of the agents that inhibit life
intermission to Greek ritual
Plautine play - Plautus [Roman]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [movie]
combines two Plautine plays
Atellian farces - burlesques myth, legend, & ordinary life
Dorian & Roman mimes
pantomime
Commedia Dell' Arte
zanni - clowns
husband vs wife, youth vs age
deception
the old man, the braggart captain, the lovers, the doctor, the venal priest
the servant, the fool, the shrew
medieval blackface
a devil
Saturnalia
beast mummery
carnival
Feast of Fools
December
Lord of Misrule / King of Fools
May Festival
wooing & nuptial revels
shivaree - charivari [Fr] probably from a Latin word meaning headache
medicine shows
mountebank [Italian]
monta im banco - one gets up onto the bench
quack doctor
short for quacksalver [Dutch] - to boast, to salve
low pitchman
tripes & keister - tripod and satchel displaycase
patent medicine shows
the quack doctor / high pitchman
musician, acrobat, juggler, magician, mind reader, sharpshooter
mostly oral tradition
blackface commedian
Jake
Eris Discordia [Greek]
discordianism
Principia Discordia [see Zen]
Sufi teaching stories
Buffo: The Genius of Vulgar Comedy - Anthony Caputi
Principia Discordia - Robert Anton Wilson
Step Right Up - Brooks McNamara
Tales of the Dervishes - Idries Shah
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