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Till Eulenspiegel [Ger.,=owl-mirror, hence English Owlglass], a north German peasant clown of the 14th cent. who was immortalized in chapbooks describing his practical jokes on clerics and townsfolk. The first Till chapbook (c.1500) was probably in Saxon, but the story it told spread all over Europe and North Britain. Till is the hero of a tone poem by Richard Strauss and of many novels, poems, and stories. Tyll Ulenspiegel is one of the variant spellings.

Bibliography: See K. R. H. MacKenzie's adaptation in English, Master Tyll Owlglass (1890).

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Eulenspiegel, Till, a German peasant of the early 14th cent. whose jests and practical jokes form the subject of a collection of satirical tales; one of these incidents features in Chaucer's ‘Summoner's Tale’ (in Canterbury Tales, 8). The earliest surviving printed edition, in High German, was published in Strasburg in 1515; there were early translations into English, and many other languages. In England Till was known as Owlglass; an abridged translation into English by William Copland was published as A Merye Jest of a Man that Was called Howleglas (c.1555). There are references to Owlglass in Jonson and John Taylor.

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