The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0529 Friday, 5 September 2008
[1] From: Ben Spiller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 1 Sep 2008 18:12:19 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 19.0521 Court Fools
[2] From: Frank Whigham <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 1 Sep 2008 14:43:49 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 19.0521 Court Fools
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From: Ben Spiller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 1 Sep 2008 18:12:19 +0100
Subject: 19.0521 Court Fools
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0521 Court Fools
Try: Enid Welsford, "The Fool: His Social and Literary History" (Faber and
Faber, 1935); William Willeford, "The Fool and His Sceptre" (Northwestern
University Press, 1969); and John Southworth, "Fools and Jesters at the English
Court" (Sutton Publishing, 1998).
Also, my theatre company (www.1623theatre.co.uk) performs a show called Stand-Up
Shakespeare, which features fools and clowns from Shakespeare's plays and
reworks them into modern stand-up comedians (e.g. Lance the dog-loving tramp,
Autloycus the thieving wide-boy and Feste the sharp-tongued punk). I can send
you more information off-group, if you like.
Best wishes
Ben.
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From: Frank Whigham <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 1 Sep 2008 14:43:49 -0500
Subject: 19.0521 Court Fools
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0521 Court Fools
Enid Welsford. The Fool: His Social and Literary History (1935).
~Frank Whigham
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