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  1. …show business didn't start in the old west with travelling Minstrell shows. Etruscans (pre Roman) had theatres in every city state as did the Romans after them. Etruscan being one of the earliest known civilizations but there was probably theatres and acting even before that.

  2. TRAVELLING MINSTRELLS AND JESTERS….

    From battlefield comedians to unfortunate messengers, jesters played varied roles in courts through the Middle Ages and Tudor period. When we imagine a medieval or Tudor feast, we might picture a jester, the wise fool, running among the guests juggling or telling bawdy jokes while minstrels strum their lutes. But in the 11th and 12th centuries, the title ‘minstrel’, meaning ‘little servant’, was the name given to a wide range of entertainers, including singers, musicians, jugglers, tumblers, magicians as well as joculators or jesters. Both men and women were employed as minstrels and there is a record of a joculatrix* called Adeline owning land in Hampshire in 1086.

    *Noun. joculatrix (plural joculatrices) (obsolete) A female joculator; a female jester, comedian or entertainer

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