Harlequin ( or Arlecchino in Italian, Arlequin in French, and Arlequín in Spanish ) is the most popularly known of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell ' arte and its descendant, the Harlequinade.

The Browning Version is a play by Terence Rattigan, first performed on 8 September 1948 at the Phoenix Theatre, London, in a joint performance with Harlequinade.

The coda comes from the Grand Pas des Fleurs from second act of The Talisman, while the rest of the music is from Harlequinade.

" Harlequin Valentine " is a bloody and romantic short story ( 1999 ) and graphic novel ( 2001 ) based on the old Commedia dell ' arte and Harlequinade pantomime.

At the back of the book is Gaiman's essay, " Notes on a Harlequinade ," which tells us a little about the old harlequin stories of the Italian Commedia dell ' arte and the English Harlequinade.

In the 1800s, children went to the theatre ( primarily around Christmas and New Years ) to witness the craziness of the Harlequinade, or " the comic business " as it is also called.

The plot of the Harlequinade was relatively simple ; the star-crossed lovers, Harlequin and Columbine, run away from Columbine's father, Pantaloon, who is being slowed down in his pursuit of them by his servant The Clown.

The story of the Harlequinade revolves around a comic incident in the lives of its five main characters: Harlequin, who loves Columbine ; Columbine's greedy father Pantaloon, who tries to separate the lovers in league with the mischievous Clown ; and the servant, Pierrot, often involving a chase scene with a policeman.

In the last year of the century, Pierrot appeared in a Russian ballet, Harlequin's Millions a. k. a. Harlequinade ( 1900 ), its libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa, its music by Riccardo Drigo, its dancers the members of St. Petersburg's Imperial Ballet.

" Her musical collaborations with composer Ezra Laderman which had begun in 1956 with Duet for Flute and Dancer, inspired by Erdman's interpretation of Debussy's solo flute composition Syrinx in her 1948 solo Hamadryad and culminating in the 1957 group work Harlequinade, featuring dancer Donald McKayle, were the subject of a feature story in Time Magazine in April 1957.

NOTE-this Pas de deux from fashioned by Pyotr Gusev circa 1930 from music from Petipa and Drigo's ballets Harlequinade and The Talisman ( 1889 ).

From the age of two, Grimaldi was taught to act the characters in the Harlequinade by his father.

Petipa created over fifty ballets, some of which have survived in versions either faithful to, inspired by, or reconstructed from the original — The Pharaoh's Daughter ( 1862 ); Don Quixote ( 1869 ); La Bayadère ( 1877 ); Le Talisman ( 1889 ); The Sleeping Beauty ( 1890 ); The Nutcracker ( which was most likely choreographed by Lev Ivanov, perhaps with Petipa's counsel and instruction ) ( 1892 ); Le Réveil de Flore ( 1894 ); Le Halte de Cavalerie ( 1896 ); Raymonda ( 1898 ); Les Saisons ( 1900 ), and Les Millions d ’ Arlequin ( a. k. a. Harlequinade ) ( 1900 ).

Many dances have survived in an independent form from Petipa's original works and revivals in versions either based on the original or choreographed anew by others — the Grand Pas classique, Pas de trois and Mazurka des enfants from Paquita ; La Carnaval de Venise Pas de deux from Satanella ; The Talisman Pas de deux ; La Esmeralda Pas de deux ; the Diane and Actéon Pas de deux ; Le Halte de Cavalerie Pas de deux ; the Don Quixote Pas de deux ; La Fille Mal Gardée Pas de deux ; and the Harlequinade Pas de deux.

Harlequinade was dedicated by both Drigo and Petipa to the new Empress, Alexandra Feodorovna, a work which would prove to be the last enduring flash of Petipa's choreographic ouvre.

These pantomimes were followed by, or incorporated, a Harlequinade.

Eventually, the Opening became the more popular part of the production and by the 1870s, the Harlequinade had mostly died out of fashion, although most authors of books on the subject seem to agree that " pantos " were better when the Harlequinade still held a large place in the night's festivities.

However, the play and its companion-piece Harlequinade failed to find favor with the New York critics ( possibly as a retaliation against the London critics ' lukewarm reception of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in the same year ) and closed after just 62 performances.

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In the Symposium, Agathon is presented as the friend of the comic poet Aristophanes, but this alleged friendship did not prevent Aristophanes from harshly criticizing Agathon in at least two of his comic plays: the Thesmophoriazousae and the ( now lost ) Gerytades.

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