page_title: Town drunk
hierarchical_section_title: Town drunk
caption_attribution_description: Detail from an illustration of a nineteenth century temperance play, "Ten Nights in a Barroom."
context_page_description: The town drunk is a stock character, almost always male, who is drunk more often than sober.
context_section_description: The town drunk (also called a tavern fool) is a stock character, almost always male, who is drunk more often than sober.
caption: The depraved inhabitants of a tavern, from a nineteenth-century temperance play.
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