28. The First Clown

Today, Sunshine and Alix are talking about the real horrors and tragedies in first recognizable clowns. In this episode: Commedia Dell'arte, Joseph Grimaldi, Jean Gaspard Deburau.

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Most of the research for this episode came from:

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, by Joseph Grimaldi, edited and abridged by Charles Dickens.

"The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi" - Essay by Andrew McConnell Stott. Both found here: https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/11/14/the-memoirs-of-joseph-grimaldi/

Spirits Podcast, Ep 97: Clowns https://spiritspodcast.com/episodes/clowns