Gracioso

Gracioso is a clown or jester in Spanish comedy of the 16th century. Clarion, the clown in Calderon's Life Is A Dream is recognized as a Gracioso.

Northrop Frye identified him as a type of tricky slave.

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "^{article name needed}". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne. 
• Clown History
• Gracioso entry in the Dictionnaire International des Termes Littéraires.
• Notes on Maurice Ravel's Alborada Del Gracioso.