Harlequinade "the lean and slippered Pantaloon". In the English harlequinade, Pantaloon emerged as the greedy, elderly father of Columbine who tries to keep the lovers separated but was no match for Harlequin's cleverness. His servant Clown's antics, however, slowed him in his pursuit of the lovers. Later, Pantaloon became Clown's assistant. Pierrot ("Pedroline") was a comic servant character, often Pantaloon's servant. His face was whitened with flour. During the 17th century, the character was increasingly portrayed as stupid and awkward, a country bumpkin with oversized clothes. During the 19th century, the Pierrot character became less comic, and more sentimental and romantic,
Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend similarly incriminating anagrams could be derived from Wallace's own book. When Harper's Magazine excerpted "Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend", Heaney and Jacobson wrote in response that its first three sentences: are an anagram of: Carroll has been voted by the staff and readers of "" as the least likely suspect (out of 22 names featured) to have actually been Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend is a 1996 book by Richard Wallace in which Wallace proposed a theory that British author Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles L. Dodgson (1832–1898), and his