Crossword-Solution: HANSWURST
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| Clown of old German comedy. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HANSWURST (5)
Papageno, for instance, is but a slightly metamorphosed Kasperl, a Jack Pudding (Hanswurst) twice removed; and Kasperl is as intimately bound up in the German nature as his cousin Punch in the English.
Gottsched, among his other labours, composed a great deal for the theatre; connected with a certain Madam Neuber, who was at the head of a company of players in Leipsic, he discarded Punch (Hanswurst), whom they buried solemnly with great triumph.
This rôle,--that of the _badin_ in France, the _gracioso_ in Spain, _arlequino_ in Italy, _Hanswurst_ in Germany,--becomes fixed like the buffoon (_maccus_) in the classical comedy.
Just look at this wooden snuff-box that lies beside the plaster greyhound! It represents my ancestor, Hanswurst.
There was, however, also amusing leaping and dancing, and the funny clown,--the English Jack-Pudding, Dutch Pekelharing, German Hanswurst, French Jean Potage, Italian Signor Maccaroni.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1962).