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A Jester, Court jester, Trickster or Fool was historically a comedian and entertainer during the medieval and Renaissance eras who was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch. He was employed to bring some lightness to the courts of Medieval Europe, and to take the... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Doran (1807-78) was a London born editor and writer of Irish parentage who wrote a number of books on various subjects including manners, social history, royalty and the aristocracy. He edited Horace Walpole's Journal of the Reign of George III, and among other posts he was for... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

I DO not know any earlier instance of a retained female fool than in the case of the wife of Seneca, who kept in her house one named Harpaste, and whom the philosopher describes as fatua, adding that he himself found no pleasure in such objects; and (as I have quoted in another... Read Full Overview