The article covers the main comical units of the artistic structure of a variety-circus
performance. The author analyses the nature of humour on stage and at the circus and
dwells on such basic concepts as a comic trick and reprise. Special methods of buffoonery, grotesque, substitution of alogism for logic, combination of realism and phantasmagoria are used in staging a variety-circus act.
Key words: circus, original genre, eccentricity, buffoonery, grotesque.
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