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1 day ago · A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Pedro Calderón de la Barca 's Life is a dream, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include Bubbles, Wheeler Walker, Jr. and the stand-up persona of Bob Saget.
2 hours ago · Group identity being its criterion, the privileged tale reintroduces the audience to itself; at the same time, as epic narration rehearses the thinking of the collective mind, its performance prompts that mind to reflection by revisiting familiar loci of crisis, choice, and deed.
