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Also Known As	drollery • droll-humour

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Interior of the Red Bull, from the frontispiece to Francis Kirkman's The Wits; or, Sport upon Sport

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theatrical production puppetry mime and pantomime commedia erudita afterpiece improvisation ludi scaenici harlequinade theatre circus acting