All the King’s Fools: ‘Disability is deep in comedy’s DNA’

The book Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World by Beatrice K. Otto is available from Amazon.

Fools and Jesters at the English Court by John Southworth is a reign-by reign account of court fools from their origins in Carolingian Europe and Celtic Ireland to the time of James I. This book is out of print, but available from Alibris.

“The court jester is a universal phenomenon. He crops up in every court worth its salt in medieval and Renaissance Europe, in China, India, Japan, Russia, America and Africa.”

The book Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World by Beatrice K. Otto is available from Amazon.

Fools and Jesters at the English Court by John Southworth is a reign-by reign account of court fools from their origins in Carolingian Europe and Celtic Ireland to the time of James I. This book is out of print, but available from Alibris.