Priests and Jesters
Author : Fred Burkhard
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Communism
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Author : Fred Burkhard
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Communism
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Author : Fred Bud Burkhard
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Page : 448 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Leszek Kołakowski
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Humanities
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Author : James Patterson
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Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Crusades
ISBN : 9781876590994
Author : Dr. Doran
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Fiction
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Dr. Doran's 'The History of Court Fools' is an exciting journey through time, exploring the fascinating lives of jesters and fools. Presented in a story format, this history book takes us on a tour of court life in Europe, from the legendary fool to the female jester. We learn about the noodle of the Orient, the minstrels and jesters of England, and the jesters of Italy. We also delve into the jesters of Germany and the Spanish court, and discover the princes who became their own fools. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in history, the courtly life, and the role of the fool in society.
Author : Beatrice K. Otto
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2001-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0226640914
In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history—the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, from the courts of ancient China and the Mogul emperors of India to those of medieval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. With a wealth of anecdotes, jokes, quotations, epigraphs, and illustrations (including flip art), Otto brings to light little-known jesters, highlighting their humanizing influence on people with power and position and placing otherwise remote historical figures in a more idiosyncratic, intimate light. Most of the work on the court jester has concentrated on Europe; Otto draws on previously untranslated classical Chinese writings and other sources to correct this bias and also looks at jesters in literature, mythology, and drama. Written with wit and humor, Fools Are Everywhere is the most comprehensive look at these roguish characters who risked their necks not only to mock and entertain but also to fulfill a deep and widespread human and social need.
Author : David Krause
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501744011
A fierce mirth characterizes antic Irish comedy. To the degree to which everyone sympathizes with the need to mock repressive authority, everyone is potentially Irish. It is the Irish dramatists themselves, says David Krause, that are the true authors of the profane book of Irish comedy. The body of literature they have produced desecrates the sacred in Ireland and launches a sardonic attack on the queen of Irish nationalism, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, the old sow who, according to Joyce's tragicomic jest, tries to devour her creative farrow. Krause discusses the major works of fourteen Irish playwrights—Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Dion Boucicault, William Boyle, Paul Vincent Carroll, George Fitzmaurice, Lady Gregory, Denis Johnston, Sean O'Casey, Lennox Robinson, Bernard Shaw, George Shields, J. M. Synge, and W. B. Yeats—and shows the ways in which these works are linked, emotionally and thematically, to early Gaelic literature and the tradition of the mythic pagan playboy Oisin or Usheen. As the last great pagan hero of Ireland, Oisin emerges as an archetype for the many playboys and paycocks of Irish comedy. Oisin was the antithesis of St. Patrick, the first great Christian saint of Ireland, who, condemning pleasure and threatening eternal damnation, came to represent all authority. The bearers of this dark and wild Celtic tradition, which Synge and O'Casey associated with a daimonic or barbarous impulse, laugh irreverently at their own creations. This laughter, the laughter of the culture's mythmakers, brings with it emotional relief, comic catharsis.
Author : Leonard Bacon
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Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : ... Doran
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Page : 406 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 1858
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