Buffo
    mastery of the agents that inhibit life
    intermission to Greek ritual
    Plautine play
        Plautus [Roman]
        A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [movie]
            combines two Plautine plays
    Atellian farces
        burlesques myth, legend, & ordinary life
    Dorian & Roman mimes
        pantomime
    Commedia Dell' Arte
        zanni
            clowns
        husband vs wife, youth vs age
            deception
        the old man, the braggart captain, the lovers, the doctor, the venal priest
        the servant, the fool, the shrew
        medieval blackface
            a devil
    Saturnalia
    beast mummery
    carnival
    Feast of Fools
        December
        Lord of Misrule / King of Fools
    May Festival
    wooing & nuptial revels
        shivaree
            charivari [Fr] probably from a Latin word meaning headache
medicine shows
    mountebank [Italian]
        monta im banco
            one gets up onto the bench
    quack doctor
        short for quacksalver [Dutch]
            to boast, to salve
    low pitchman
        tripes & keister
            tripod and satchel displaycase
    patent medicine shows
        the quack doctor / high pitchman
        musician, acrobat, juggler, magician, mind reader, sharpshooter
        mostly oral tradition
        blackface commedian
            Jake
Eris Discordia [Greek]
    discordianism
        Principia Discordia [see Zen]
Sufi teaching stories
 
Principia Discordia - Robert Anton Wilson
Buffo: The Genius of Vulgar Comedy - Anthony Caputi
Step Right Up - Brooks McNamara
Tales of the Dervishes - Idries Shah