Hanswurst

In these Puppenspiele (puppet-shows) the comic element largely prevails and is kept up by the comic figure Kasperle, a buffoon or 'Hanswurst' of the same character as the Italian Pulcinella, the progenitor of our

The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

Pudding (Hanswurst) twice removed; and Kasperl is as intimately bound up in the German nature as his cousin Punch in the English.

A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

Hanswurst was a fat glutton of the fifteenth century who aimed to be clever but made blunders.

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

“Macaroni,” the Dutch “Pickel-herringe,” and the German “Hanswurst.”

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

_arlequino_ in Italy, _Hanswurst_ in Germany, -- becomes fixed like the buffoon (_maccus_) in the classical comedy.

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

a company of players in Leipsic, he discarded Punch (Hanswurst), whom they buried solemnly with great triumph.

Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806

"See -- look at this wooden snuff-box; in it you see a portrait of my great-grandfather, Hanswurst.

The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian