Among the French dramatists who wrote for the Italians and who gave Pierrot life on their stage were Jean Palaprat, Claude-Ignace Brugière de Barante, Antoine Houdar de la Motte, and the most sensitive of his early interpreters, Jean-François Regnard.

The result, far from " regular " drama, tended to put a strain on his character, and, as a consequence, the Pierrot of the fairgrounds is a much less nuanced and rounded type than we find in the older repertoire.

A pantomime produced at the Funambules in 1828, The Gold Dream, or Harlequin and the Miser, was widely thought to be the work of Nodier, and both Gautier and Banville wrote Pierrot playlets that were eventually produced on other stages — Posthumous Pierrot ( 1847 ) and The Kiss ( 1887 ), respectively.

In 1860, Deburau was directly credited with inspiring such anguish, when, in a novella called Pierrot by Henri Rivière, the mime-protagonist blames his real-life murder of a treacherous Harlequin on Baptiste's " sinister " cruelties.

Among the most celebrated of pantomimes in the latter part of the century would appear sensitive moon-mad souls duped into criminality — usually by love of a fickle Columbine — and so inevitably marked for destruction ( Paul Margueritte's Pierrot, Murderer of His Wife ; the mime Séverin's Poor Pierrot ; Catulle Mendès ’ Ol ’ Clo's Man, modeled on Gautier's " review ").

But it was the Pierrot as conceived by Legrand that had the greatest influence on future mimes.

( Monti would go on to claim his rightful fame by celebrating another spiritual outsider, much akin to Pierrot — the Gypsy.

Not until the first decade of the next century, when the great ( and popular ) fantasist Maxfield Parrish worked his magic on the figure, would Pierrot be comfortably naturalized in America.

( As the Wikipedia article on Petrushka indicates, the Russian clown is in general a Pulcinella figure, but in this ballet he seems closer to a Pierrot.

* German — Gottowt, John: The Black Lottery Ticket, or Pierrot's Last Night on the Town ( 1913 ); Löwenbein, Richard: Marionettes ( 1918 ); Piel, Harry: The Black Pierrot ( 1913, 1926 ); Wich, Ludwig von: The Cuckolded Pierrot ( 1917 ; view The Cuckolded Pierrot ).

* Ukrainian — Semenko, Myhailo: Pierrot Loves ( 1918 ), Pierrot Puts on Airs ( 1918 ), Pierrot Deadnooses ( 1919 ).

* British — Ashton, Helen: Pierrot in Town ( 1913 ); Barrington, Pamela: White Pierrot ( 1932 ); Callaghan, Stella: " Pierrot and the Black Cat " ( 1921 ), Pierrot of the World ( 1923 ); Deakin, Dorothea: The Poet and the Pierrot ( 1905 ); Herring, Paul: The Pierrots on the Pier: A Holiday Entertainment ( 1914 ); Priestley, J. B .: The Good Companions ( 1929 ; plot follows fortunes of a Pierrot troupe, The Dinky Doos ; has had many adaptations, for stage, screen, TV, and radio ).

Before turning to that century, however, we should note that it was in this, the eighteenth, that Pierrot began to be naturalized in other countries.

In Belgium, where the Decadents and Symbolists were as numerous as their French counterparts, Félicien Rops depicted a grinning Pierrot who is witness to an unromantic backstage scene ( Blowing Cupid's Nose ) and James Ensor painted Pierrots ( and other masks ) obsessively, sometimes rendering them prostrate in the ghastly light of dawn ( The Strange Masks ), sometimes isolating Pierrot in their midst, his head drooping in despondency ( Pierrot's Despair ), sometimes augmenting his company with a smiling, stein-hefting skeleton ( Pierrot and Skeleton in Yellow ).

He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d ' avril, and has published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch.

He produced 15 other mimodramas, including Pierrot de Montmartre, The Three Wigs, The Pawn Shop, 14 July, The Wolf of Tsu Ku Mi, Paris Cries — Paris Laughs and Don Juan ( adapted from the Spanish writer Tirso de Molina ).

Among his most famous paintings, beside the two versions of the Pilgrimage to Cythera ( one in the Louvre, the other in the Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin ), are Pierrot ( long identified as " Gilles "), Fêtes venitiennes, Love in the Italian Theater, Love in the French Theater, " Voulez-vous triompher des belles?

Among his other better-known works are the overture The Pierrot of the Minute ( 1908 ) and the Pagan Symphony ( 1928 ).

The anime series spawned a movie in 1996, entitled, which was a " double bill " ( the other movie being a YuYu Hakusho film ) release, produced by Pierrot.

" Théodore de Banville followed suit: " both mute, attentive, always understanding each other, feeling and dreaming and responding together, Pierrot and the People, united like two twin souls, mingled their ideas, their hopes, their banter, their ideal and subtle gaiety, like two Lyres playing in unison, or like two Rhymes savoring the delight of being similar sounds and of exhaling the same melodious and sonorous voice.

“ Pierrot ,” he wrote, “ walking the street in his white blouse, his white trousers, his floured face, preoccupied with vague desires — is he not the symbol of the human heart still white and innocent, tormented by infinite aspirations toward the higher spheres ?” And this dreaming creature of vague desires is essentially innocent of criminal intent: “ When Pierrot took the sword, he had no other idea than of pulling a little prank !”

True to his classic trickster ways, in the same vein as Puck, he's constantly meddling with other people's lives and causing mischief as he goes, which often get blamed on Pierrot.

One is a Pierrot clown where the other is a lost ballerina.

Former WXYZ-TV general manager John Pival is credited for launching several other popular innovative programs in the 1950s and 1960s, including the World Adventure Series with host George Pierrot.

It was adapted into an anime series, produced by Pierrot, spanned 45 episodes, and aired in Japan on TBS and the anime television network, Animax, who have also later broadcast it within respective networks across Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, translating and dubbing the series into English and other languages.

He is especially noted today for his translations of other writers ’ poetic works, often improving the poetry of the original, in particular of Albert Giraud ’ s Pierrot Lunaire which forms the Sprechstimme text of Arnold Schoenberg ’ s work of that name.

The formula has proven enduring: Pierrot is still a fixture at Bakken, the oldest amusement park in the world, where he plays the nitwit talking to and entertaining children, and at nearby Tivoli Gardens, the second oldest, where the Harlequin and Columbine act is performed as a pantomime and ballet.

The earliest and most influential of these, The Chap-Book ( 1894 – 98 ), which featured a story about Pierrot by the aesthete Percival Pollard in its second number, was soon host to Beardsley-inspired Pierrots drawn by E. B.

The second, Variations: Beyond Pierrot ( 1995 ), is a work by the American composer Larry Austin.

* For her second major label single, Aya Kamiki has covered " Pierrot ", the B-side of " Yuruginaimono Hitotsu ".

Their countryman the poet Albert Giraud also identified intensely with the zanni: the fifty rondels of his Pierrot lunaire ( Moonstruck Pierrot ) would inspire several generations of composers ( see Pierrot lunaire below ), and his verse-play Pierrot-Narcissus ( 1887 ) offered a definitive portrait of the solipsistic poet-dreamer.

She is Harlequin's mistress, a comic servant playing the tricky slave type, and wife of Pierrot.

Pasquale is recognizable as the blustery Pantalone, Ernesto as the lovesick Pierrot, Malatesta as the scheming Scapino, and Norina as a wily Columbina.

Pierrot () is a stock character of pantomime and Commedia dell ' Arte whose origins are in the late 17th-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne ; the name is a hypocorism of Pierre ( Peter ), via the suffix-ot.

The defining characteristic of Pierrot is his naïveté: he is seen as a fool, always the butt of pranks, yet nonetheless trusting.

The broad satirical streak in Lesage often rendered him indifferent to Pierrot's character altogether, and consequently, as the critic Vincent Barberet observes, " Pierrot is assigned the most diverse roles.

( Pierrot is a member of the audience watching the play.

The penetration of Pierrot and his companions of the Commedia into Spain is documented in a painting by Goya, Itinerant Actors ( 1793 ).

He entitled it " Shakespeare at the Funambules ", and in it Gautier summarized and analyzed an unnamed pantomime of unusually somber events: Pierrot murders an old-clothes man for garments to court a duchess, then is skewered in turn by the sword with which he stabbed the peddler when the latter's ghost lures him into a dance at his wedding.

When Gustave Courbet drew a crayon illustration for The Black Arm ( 1856 ), a pantomime by Fernand Desnoyers written for another mime, Paul Legrand ( see next section ), the Pierrot who quakes with fear as a black arm snakes up from the ground before him is clearly a child of the Pierrot in The Ol ’ Clo's Man.

Canio's Pagliaccio in the famous opera ( 1892 ) by Leoncavallo is close enough to a Pierrot to deserve a mention here.

Much less well-known is the musical " mimodrama " of Vittorio Monti, Noël de Pierrot a. k. a. A Clown's Christmas ( 1900 ), its score set to a pantomime by Fernand Beissier, one of the founders of the Cercle Funambulesque.

It is in fact jarring to find the champion of American prose Realism, William Dean Howells, introducing Pastels in Prose ( 1890 ), a volume of French prose-poems translated by Stuart Merrill and containing a Paul Margueritte pantomime, The Death of Pierrot, with words of warm praise ( and even congratulations to each poet for failing “ to saddle his reader with a moral ”).

* French — Alain-Fournier: Le Grand Meaulnes a. k. a. The Wanderer ( 1913 ; Ganache the Pierrot is an important symbolic figure ); Champsaur, Félicien: Lulu ( 1901 ), Le Jazz des Masques ( 1928 ); Gyp: Mon ami Pierrot ( 1921 ); Queneau, Raymond: Pierrot mon ami ( 1942 ); Rivollet, Georges: " The Pierrot " ( 1914 ).