Bouffon
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| - | '''''La Puttana Errante''''' (c.1650-60) is the title of two [[anonymously published]] works from the 17th century, formerly attributed to Aretino. | ||
| - | The oldest is a poem and the second a prose dialogue. [[Alcide Bonneau]] calls the poem a "parodie [[bouffon]]ne des romans de chevalerie" and atributes it to [[Lorenzo Veniero]], le meilleur disciple de l'Arétin, est plus ancien que le Dialogue." | + | '''Bouffon''' (eng. originally from French: "farceur", "comique", [[jester]]") is a modern French theater term that was re-coined in the early 1960s by [[Jacques Lecoq]] at his [[L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq]] in [[Paris]] to describe a specific style of performance work that has a main focus in the art of [[mockery]]. |
| - | The prose work, again according to Bonneau, "qui porte le même titre, par [[supercherie]], est très inférieur au poème en mérite littéraire, mais il est beaucoup plus connu." | + | ==Etymology and early history== |
| + | The word Bouffon comes from a Latin verb: ''[[buffare]]'', to puff (i.e., to fill the cheeks with air). The usage of the word Bouffon comes from French and has entered English theatrical language through the work of [[Jacques Lecoq]] and his pedagogic inquiry into performance approaches of comedy, leading him to create dynamic classroom exercises that explored elements of [[burlesque]], [[commedia dell'arte]], [[farce]], [[gallows humor]], [[parody]], [[satire]], [[slapstick comedy]], etc. that collectively influenced the development of modern bouffon performance work. | ||
| - | Like many "[[whore dialogue]]s" in the seventeenth century, it was inspired by [[Pietro Aretino]]'s earlier sonnets. It was translated into many European languages and its title was appropriated for a short-lived British periodical called ''The Wandering Whore''. | + | ==See also== |
| - | + | * [[Jester]] | |
| - | Its bibliographic source is [[David Foxon]]'s ''Libertine Literature in England, 1660-1745'' (1965). | + | * [[Opéra bouffon]] |
| - | + | * [[Opera buffa]] | |
| - | Pages 63 and 64 of [[Walter Kendrick]]'s ''[[The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture|Secret Museum]]'' have some background info. | + | * [[Buffoon]] |
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Bouffon (eng. originally from French: "farceur", "comique", jester") is a modern French theater term that was re-coined in the early 1960s by Jacques Lecoq at his L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris to describe a specific style of performance work that has a main focus in the art of mockery.
Etymology and early history
The word Bouffon comes from a Latin verb: buffare, to puff (i.e., to fill the cheeks with air). The usage of the word Bouffon comes from French and has entered English theatrical language through the work of Jacques Lecoq and his pedagogic inquiry into performance approaches of comedy, leading him to create dynamic classroom exercises that explored elements of burlesque, commedia dell'arte, farce, gallows humor, parody, satire, slapstick comedy, etc. that collectively influenced the development of modern bouffon performance work.
See also
