Professional fool

Motif

Professional fool.

Society. · Other social orders. · Other social orders – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as P192.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, King Lear Act 5

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Madmen (fools, professional fools).

Filed beside it

Fool as clever judge Fool can walk on water Fool can live under water Fool makes friends with birds and beasts Customary to shave heads of demented so that they may be recognized as such Fool recognized by lump on his forehead

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