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gracioso

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gra·ci·o·so  (gräs-s)
n. pl. gra·ci·o·sos
A clown or buffoon in Spanish comedies.

[Spanish, amiable, clown, from Latin grtisus; see gracious.]

gracioso [ˌgræsɪˈəʊsəʊ (Spanish) graˈθjoso]
n pl -sos
(Performing Arts / Theatre) a clown in Spanish comedy
[from Spanish: gracious]


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Bred by Flaxman Holdings, La Equivocada is the third winner from as many starters out of Dragonada, a Group 3-placed daughter of Nureyev who is a sister to Group 1 winner Gracioso and Caesour, who scored in Grade 2 company, and to minor winner Tragic Role, later a dual-purpose sire.
Es especialmente interesante el analisis que el autor hace de Juan Rana como contrapunto y a la vez complemento del protagonista masculino de la obra en que el entremes se insertaba: por ejemplo, el personaje gracioso de El triunfo de Juan Rana que Calderon expresamente escribio para incluir en su Fieras afemina amor, donde Hercules era el protagonista.
Much of the material in Thompson's study has been available to scholars since the early twentieth century, but the social and legal history of early modern sexuality, together with comedia performance studies and queer theory, has only recently made it possible to view the gracioso Juan Rana's biography, and the references to homosexuality in the entremeses written for him, as pertinent to early modern cultural history and to comedia studies in particular, rather than merely anecdotal.
 
 
 
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