Great Fools of History
I was asked for my next class to cover the actual fools and jesters of history, what they did and what they wore.
My resources, and other books I don't have!

My books:
Fools Are Everywhere_ (University of Chicago Press) by Beatrice K. Otto - wonderful!!!
Clowns: A Panoramic History of Fools and Jesters, Medieval Mimes, Jongleurs and Minstrels, Pueblo Indian Delight Makers and Cheyenne Contraries, Harlequins and Pierrots, Theatrical Buffoons, etc. - very good!
Fools and Jesters of the English Court by John Southworth
Dwarfs and jesters in art With 90 illus: Erika Tietze-Conrat
And then a zillion more references- have fun!
http://www.modaruniversity.org/Fool.htm - sca fools1
Armin, Robert "Fools and Jesters: with a reprint of robert Armin's Nest of
ninnies" Call Number: PR2417.N4 1842
Busby, Olive Mary "Studies in the development of the fool in the Elizabethan
drama" Call Number: PR658.F7B8 1923
Doran, John "The History of Court Fools"
Call Number: Gt3670.d6
Swain, Barbara "Fools and folly during the middle ages and renaissance"
Call Number: PN56.F6S8
Welsford, Enid "The Fool; his social and literary history."
Call Number: GT3670.W4
Arden, Heather "Fool's plays: a study of satire in the sottie"
Call Number: PQ514.A7 1980
Billington, Sandra "A Social History of the fool"
Call Number: GT3670.B45 1984
Kaiser, Walter Jacob "Praisers of folly: Erasmus Rabelais, Shakespeare."
Call Number: PA8515.K3
Lukens, Nancy "buchner's Valerio and teh theatrical fool tradition"
Call Number: PT1828.BA7246
Willeford, William
The Fool and his Scepter; a study of clowns and jesters and their audience.
GV1828 .W5 Northwestern University Press, 196
: A Shakespeare Jestbook Robert Armin's Foole upon Foole (1600), A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition by H.F. Lippincott
1973 Institut Für Literatur Universität Salzburg A-5020 Salzburg, Austria.
The Jester Has Lost His Jingle by David Saltzman
The Jester Company.
The Fool. His Social and Literary History by Enid Wilsford
1935 Farrar and Rinehart Inc.
Shakespeare's Clown: Actor and text in the Elizabethan playhouse by David Wiles
1987 Cambridge University Press.
Robert Armin and Twelfth Night by Muriel C. Bradbook
1972 [Twelfth Night: A Casebook], Macmillan Press Ltd.
Fools Are Everywhere_ (University of Chicago Press) by Beatrice K. Otto - wonderful!!!
Clowns: A Panoramic History of Fools and Jesters, Medieval Mimes, Jongleurs and Minstrels, Pueblo Indian Delight Makers and Cheyenne Contraries, Harlequins and Pierrots, Theatrical Buffoons, etc. - very good!
Fools and Jesters of the English Court by John Southworth
Dwarfs and jesters in art With 90 illus: Erika Tietze-Conrat
And then a zillion more references- have fun!
http://www.modaruniversity.org/Fool.htm - sca fools1
Armin, Robert "Fools and Jesters: with a reprint of robert Armin's Nest of
ninnies" Call Number: PR2417.N4 1842
Busby, Olive Mary "Studies in the development of the fool in the Elizabethan
drama" Call Number: PR658.F7B8 1923
Doran, John "The History of Court Fools"
Call Number: Gt3670.d6
Swain, Barbara "Fools and folly during the middle ages and renaissance"
Call Number: PN56.F6S8
Welsford, Enid "The Fool; his social and literary history."
Call Number: GT3670.W4
Arden, Heather "Fool's plays: a study of satire in the sottie"
Call Number: PQ514.A7 1980
Billington, Sandra "A Social History of the fool"
Call Number: GT3670.B45 1984
Kaiser, Walter Jacob "Praisers of folly: Erasmus Rabelais, Shakespeare."
Call Number: PA8515.K3
Lukens, Nancy "buchner's Valerio and teh theatrical fool tradition"
Call Number: PT1828.BA7246
Willeford, William
The Fool and his Scepter; a study of clowns and jesters and their audience.
GV1828 .W5 Northwestern University Press, 196
: A Shakespeare Jestbook Robert Armin's Foole upon Foole (1600), A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition by H.F. Lippincott
1973 Institut Für Literatur Universität Salzburg A-5020 Salzburg, Austria.
The Jester Has Lost His Jingle by David Saltzman
The Jester Company.
The Fool. His Social and Literary History by Enid Wilsford
1935 Farrar and Rinehart Inc.
Shakespeare's Clown: Actor and text in the Elizabethan playhouse by David Wiles
1987 Cambridge University Press.
Robert Armin and Twelfth Night by Muriel C. Bradbook
1972 [Twelfth Night: A Casebook], Macmillan Press Ltd.