Comments on: What is the story behind pierrot and harlequin? http://www.acajunstory.com/story/what-is-the-story-behind-pierrot-and-harlequin Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:57:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Azucena http://www.acajunstory.com/story/what-is-the-story-behind-pierrot-and-harlequin/comment-page-1#comment-1182 Azucena Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:59 +0000 http://www.acajunstory.com/story/what-is-the-story-behind-pierrot-and-harlequin#comment-1182 Pierrot and Harlequin are two of the three characters involved in a love triangle in traditional commedia dell'Arte, popular in the 16th through the 18th centuries. In most versions of the story, Pierrot is the lovestruck naive partner of Columbine (the third character in this triangle). Harlequin is also in love with Columbine, and usually the two of them end up deceiving Pierrot. The opera, I Pagliacci, by Leoncavallo contains the Columbine-Pierrot-Harlequin story presented as a play within a play. Remember the stereo-typical tenor aria showing the clown in the white costume with big black fuzzy buttons and white ruffled color? That's Pierrot.<br><b>References : </b><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27Arte is a pretty good article on Commedia dell'Arte. Pierrot and Harlequin are two of the three characters involved in a love triangle in traditional commedia dell’Arte, popular in the 16th through the 18th centuries. In most versions of the story, Pierrot is the lovestruck naive partner of Columbine (the third character in this triangle). Harlequin is also in love with Columbine, and usually the two of them end up deceiving Pierrot.

The opera, I Pagliacci, by Leoncavallo contains the Columbine-Pierrot-Harlequin story presented as a play within a play. Remember the stereo-typical tenor aria showing the clown in the white costume with big black fuzzy buttons and white ruffled color? That’s Pierrot.
References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27Arte is a pretty good article on Commedia dell’Arte.

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