Droll
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Droll, short comic sketch, usually a scene taken from a longer play. It originated in London during the
Puritan Interregnum (1642–60), when the actors, forbidden to act, nevertheless managed to provide a modicum of entertainment. For their illicit purposes they invented the ‘droll’—short for Droll Humours or Drolleries—rounding it off with a
jig. Some of the most famous drolls are taken from Shakespeare—‘Bottom the Weaver’ from
A Midsummer Night's Dream and ‘The Gravemakers’ from
Hamlet. Others were from biblical sources. Droll was also the name applied to early puppet-shows, and to collections of humorous or satiric verse, as in
Westminster Drolleries (1672). It was sometimes used to designate actors, particularly players of humorous parts, and men of quick wit and good company: Pepys uses it in this sense of
Killigrew. In the late 19th century it was applied to such comediennes as
Louie Freear (1871–1939), who was equally successful in minstrel shows, music-halls, musical comedy, and Shakespeare.
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