Editing Pierrot (section)

===England===
As early as 1673, just months after Pierrot had made his debut in the ''Addendum to "The Stone Guest"'', [[Scaramouche]] Tiberio Fiorilli and a troupe assembled from the Comédie-Italienne entertained Londoners with selections from their Parisian repertoire.<ref>On the French players in England, and particularly on Pierrot in early English entertainments, see Storey, ''Pierrot: a critical history'', pp. 82–89.</ref> And in 1717, Pierrot's name first appears in an English entertainment: a [[pantomime]] by [[John Rich (producer)|John Rich]] entitled ''The Jealous Doctor; or, The Intriguing Dame''. Thereafter, until the end of the century, Pierrot appeared fairly regularly in English pantomimes (which were originally mute [[harlequinade]]s; in the 19th century, the harlequinade was a "play within a play" during the pantomime), finding his most notable interpreter in [[Carlo Delpini]] (1740–1828). Delpini, according to the popular-theater historian, M. Willson Disher, "kept strictly to the idea of a creature so stupid as to think that if he raised his leg level with his shoulder he could use it as a gun."<ref>{{harvnb|Disher|1925|p=135}}.</ref> Pierrot was later displaced by the English [[clown]].<ref>{{harvnb|Findlater|1978|p=79}}.</ref>