Medieval European Jesters and Fools
Digital Bibliography
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Print Resources:
Armin, R. (1608). Fools and Jesters: with a reprint of Robert Armin's Nest of Ninnies, London: The Shakespeare Society.
Bates, A. (Ed). (1906). Drama: Its History, Literature, and Influence on Civilization 7, London: Historical Publishing Company.
Busby, O. M. (1923). Studies in the development of the fool in the Elizabethan drama, London: Oxford University Press.
Clouston, W. A. (1969). The book of noodles: stories of simpletons; or, Fools and their follies, Detroit: Gale Research Co.
Nelson, Janet T. (1986). Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe, London: The Hambledon Press.
Otto, B. K. (2000). Fooling around the World: The History of the Jester, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Stewart, R. W. (1993). Royalty for Commoners, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company.
Swain, B. (1932). Fools and Folly during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, New York: Columbia University Press.
Welsford, E. (1935). The Fool; his Social and Literary History, London: Faber and Faber.
Williams, P. (Ed). (1979). The Fool and the Trickster: studies in Honour of Enid Welsford, Cambridge: Rowman & Littlefield.
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