Fools have been a feature of virtually every recorded culture in the history of civilization, making significant contributions to the development of early theat

Fools have been a feature of virtually every recorded culture in the history of civilization, making significant contributions to the development of early theat

In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history—the court jester. Tho

Who is the Fool and what does he mean to us? Pre-1900 scholars thought him a Renaissance fashion, a continental import of note in the British Isles only between

Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power. Wheth