Editing Tarring and feathering (section)

===On stage===
Tarring and feathering appeared in several English plays in the 1770s as a novel element used in "a satirical and comedic context". The appearance of a victim of the punishment was also used as a costume in a masked ball and other public appearances of that time.<ref name=Levy/> Much later, in [[Meredith Willson]]'s musical ''[[The Music Man]]'' (1957), tarring and feathering is demanded as punishment of the main character Harold Hill, con man and [[Trickster]] figure, for his scam.<ref>{{cite book |last=Armbrust |first=Walter |author-link= |date=2019 |title=Martyrs and Tricksters - An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |page=231 |isbn=9780691197517}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Viertel |first=Jack |author-link= |date=2018 |title=The Secret Life of the American Musical - How Broadway Shows Are Built |publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] |pages=225–226 |isbn=9780374711252}}</ref>