Reviews for Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World

The average rating for Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-09 00:00:00 James Mcdonnell Am reading this again (first time was about 10 years ago) because over the last few months, trickster figures kept popping up in books I was reading, shows I watched, websites I stumbled across while looking up information for a library patron, and on posters in store windows. This book gives a fascinating overview of tricksters in societies throughout history and around the world. Ironically, characters such as the medieval Yuletide's Lord of Misrule, the mythological Loki or Raven and even our own Wile E. Coyote may be crazy but they keep us sane. A culture that can't laugh at its own foibles is lost.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-02-07 00:00:00 Jeanine Narouski As of February 7th I've only read about 50 pages of this book. It's about the history of the court jester around the world, not just in Europe. Because I am only interested (for now) in court jesters and fools in Spain, France, and Italy from the 14th - 17th centuries, only half the work is of much use to me.