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

Jaimy Gordon's "Lord of Misrule" is a horse-and-human story set at a small-town West Virginia track in 1970.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011

The passage is from Jaimy Gordon's novel "Lord of Misrule," which surprised many by winning the 2010 National Book Award for fiction with a bleak, harsh-tongued glimpse of marginal lives at a West Virginia track.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2011

A shout of applause greeted this gay banter, and then as Ad�le played a lively strain, the Lord of Misrule gave a clever clog dance on the staircase landing.

From Patty's Social Season by Wells, Carolyn