- A
drollery,
often also
called a grotesque, is a
small decorative image in the
margin of an
illuminated m****cript, most po****r from
about 1250 through...
- Page from the 14th-century
Luttrell Psalter,
showing drolleries on the
right margin and a
ploughman at the bottom...
- may be scribbles, comments,
glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles,
drolleries, or illuminations.
Biblical m****cripts have
notes in the margin, for...
-
serial form in 1900. The work has been
called "a
graceful and ****y bit of
drollery". It was the
basis for the 1930
operetta Les
aventures du roi
Pausole with...
- drummer, in the
house of Mr. John Mompesson, with some
reflections on
drollery and
atheisme Glanvill, Joseph. "Essay IV
Against modern Sadducism in the...
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classified as a comedy, but it
contained "a deep vein of
melancholia to its
drollery". The Guardian's Joe
Queenan embraced it as a "bizarre
redemption tale"...
- comedian,
television writer, and
magazine columnist. His low-key,
literate drollery and
softly tart way of
tweaking trends and
pretenses made him one of the...
- of
these decretals is
known for its
marginal illustrations which are
drolleries unrelated to the
texts but
instead picture other fables,
fancies and stories...
- c. 1500
Comedy portal Basil Fool for
Christ Bouffon Chou
Clown society Drollery Fool (stock character) Fool's
literature Foolishness for
Christ Fools Guild...
-
Kissell of The New York
Daily News
remarked that he
delivered "all the
drollery with a
perfect deadpan and a twinkle"
while David Patrick Stearns of USA...
