Pasquino

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 663 words | Copyright

Pasquino, Pasquin, one of the minor zanni or servant roles of the commedia dell'arte. The name was adopted towards the end of the 16th century and passed into French comedy as Pasquin, being the name of the valet in the plays of Destouches. In the French 17th-century theatre the expression ‘the Pasquin of the company’ designated the actor who played the satiric roles. In the 18th century the word ‘pasquin’ or ‘pasquinade’ was applied in England to a lampoon, squib, or satiric piece, often political. Henry Fielding used it as the title of a production at the Haymarket in 1736 and often as a journalistic pseudonym.

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