Town drunk

The depraved inhabitants of a tavern, from a nineteenth-century temperance play.

The town drunk (also called a tavern fool) is a stock character, almost always male, who is drunk more often than sober.

Uses in fiction

In fiction, the town drunk character serves a number of functions.

References

  1. Walter J. Engler, "A Project on Our Town for Communication Classes", College English, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Dec., 1952), pp. 150–156
  2. John E. Richters and Dante Cicchetti, "Mark Twain Meets DSM-III-R: Conduct Disorder, Development, and the Concept of Harmful Dysfunction", in Development and Psychopathology 5 (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 5–29
  3. P. F. Murphy, "Living by His Wits: The Buffoon and Male Survival", in Signs 2006 vol 31, num. 4, pp. 1125–1142.
  4. Wills, B; Erickson, T (Nov 2005). "Drug- and toxin-associated seizures". The Medical Clinics of North America. 89 (6): 12971321. doi:10.1016/j.mcna.2005.06.004. PMID 16227064.
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