Jester
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 Depiction of a jester by William Merritt Chase |
A jester, joker, jokester, fool, wit-cracker, or prankster was a person employed to tell jokes and provide general entertainment, typically for a European monarch or courtier. Jesters are depicted to have typically worn brightly coloured clothes and eccentric hats in a motley pattern. Their hats were especially distinctive; often made of cloth, they were floppy with three points, each of which had a jingle bell at the end. The three points of the hat represent donkey's ears and nose and tail worn by jesters in earlier times. Other things distinctive about the jester were his laughter and his mock sceptre, known as a "bauble" or marotte.
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- Related: Basil Fool for Christ, Bouffon, Clown society, Foolishness for Christ, Fools Guild, Harlequin, Itinerant poet, King Momo, Master of the Revels, Skomorokh, Triboulet, Trickster
| Fooling Around the World (A history of the court j... Fooling Around the World (A history of the court jester) www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/640914.html - Web |
| Foolish Clothing: Depictions of Jesters and Fools ... Foolish Clothing: Depictions of Jesters and Fools in the Middle Ages and Renaissance www.larsdatter.com/foolwear.htm - Web |
| UK National Guild of Jesters site UK National Guild of Jesters site www.tabletopcircus.co.uk/jonathanthejester/guild/guildindex.htm - Web |
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| Costume (Jester Hat), ca. 1890-1920, in the Staten... Costume (Jester Hat), ca. 1890-1920, in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collection Database statenisland.pastperfect-online.com/.../mweb.exe?request=record;id=15708631-34B3-4FFD-91EE-550322395790;type=101 - Web |
