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Fools and jesters in literature, art, and history : a bio-bibliographical sourcebook

and cultural and mythological figures, such as India's Birbal, the American circus clown, the Native American Coyote, Taishu Engeki of Japan, Hephaestus, Loki the Norse fool, schlimiels and schlimazels, and the drag queen.The entries, written by expert contributors, are critical as well as informative.
Print Book, English, 1998
Greenwood Press, Westport [Conn.], 1998
Biography
xv, 552 pages ; 24 cm
9780313297854, 0313297851
37400901
Woody Allen : the clown as tragic hero
The anthropology of fools
Robert Armin
Archy Armstrong
The Badin
Lucille Ball
Jean-Louis Barrault
Beckett's postmodern clowns : Vladimir (Didi), Estragon (Gogo), Pozzo, and Lucky
Jack Benny
Birbal
The Bishop of Fools
George Burns and Gracie Allen : the Jewish vaudeville tradition
The camp
Canio-Pagliacco and Petrouchka : two contrasting images of Pierrot
Charlie Chaplin
The American circus clown
Commedia dell'Arte
Native American coyote trickster tales and cycles
The drag queen
Sir John Falstaff
Feste
W.C. Fields
Folly in the enduring tradition
The fop : "Apes and echoes of men" : gentlemanly ideals and the restoration
Gimpel
Joseph Grimaldi
Forrest Gump : innocent fool
Hamlet
Hephaestus, Hermes, and Prometheus : jesters to the gods
The Heyoka of the Sioux
Clowns of the Hopi
Knaves and fools in Ben Jonson
Buster Keaton
William Kemp
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy : yin and yang
Lear's Fool
Loki, the Norse fool
The Marx Brothers
Merry Report
Paul the apostle
Penasar of Bali : sacred clowns
Pierrot : dramatic and literary mask
Plautus's clowns
Puck/Robin Goodfellow
Punch and Judy
François Rabelais
Martha Raye
Rigoletto
Schlemiels and schlimazels
The Sleary circus
Socrates as fool in Aristophanes and Plato
Will Sommers
The sottie, the sots, and the fols
South African political clowning : laughter and resistance to apartheid
Country squires and bumpkins
The Three Stooges
Taishu Engeki : subverting the patterns of Japanese culture
The tarot fool
The tarot fool in English and American novels
Touchstone
The vice figure in middle English morality plays
The vice in Henry Medwall's Nature
Mae West
The Yankee
Zanni