Pierrot

Pierrot Stock character from the French adaptation of the Italian commedia dell'arte, in Italy he is known as Pedrolino. He begins as one of the minor figures, often a peasant or servant, extremely gluttonous and mischievous, but in France the Pierrot character acquires a dreamy, melancholy aspect, the result of his falling in love with the moon and / or hopelessly unattainable women. He thus becomes lunaire, or moonstruck, from the same root as the English word lunatic. Pierrot symbolizes…