misrule
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Simon Callow narrates Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule, a look at the career of the late comic, while Mrs Brown's Boys returns for a two-part special.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2014
He became known as the King of the Bean because of how he was chosen and also as the Lord of Misrule due to the mayhem that occurred while he presided over Carnival.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2014
Even horses are massaged into characters with emotional lives: the goofy Little Spinoza, the gutsy Lord of Misrule.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011
Karen Tei Yamashita's novel about Asian-Americans, I Hotel, and Jaimy Gordon's Lord of Misrule, which is set among horse trainers in West Virginia, are the remaining candidates.
From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2010
This done the Lord of Misrule addresseth himself to the banquet; which ended with some minstralsye, mirth and dancing every man departeth to rest.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis
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