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• Archy's dream, sometimes iester to His Majestie, but exiled the court by Canterburies malice with a relation for whom an odd chaire stood voide in hell. ([S.l. : s.n.], 1641), by Archie Armstrong (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fooles complaint to Gotham colledge, and resolution taken up by free subjects, in and about the city of London and VVestminster, of that society: in the behalfe of themselves, and the priviledges of their hospitall; with their requests, that [brace] Policy, Curiosity, Solicitude, [brace] may be judges. Study, the chiefe warden, Diligence, the atturney generall, and Fame, the beadle of the court. (London, : printed by Ridibundus, in this present yeare of wits and fancies, 1643) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners:: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on a Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris dance., by Francis Douce (Gutenberg ebook)

• Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners:: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on a Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris dance., by Francis Douce (Gutenberg ebook)

• Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by Joseph Grimaldi, ed. by Charles Dickens, illust. by George Cruikshank
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• The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies (London: E. Stock, 1888), by W. A. Clouston
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• Fools and Jesters, With a Reprint of Robert Armin's Nest of Ninnies, 1608, With an Introduction and Notes (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1842), by Robert Armin, ed. by John Payne Collier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Der Weise Narr in der Englischen Literatur von Erasmus bis Shakespeare ... (Mayer & Müller, G.m.b.H., 1928), by Walter Gaedick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die hof- und volksnarren, sammt den närrischen lustbarkeiten der verschiedenen stände aller völker und zeiten. (J. Scheible, 1861), by Friedrich Nick and Karl Friedrich Flögel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of court fools. (R. Bentley, 1858), by Dr. Doran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the development of the fool in the Elizabethan drama. (H. Milford, 1923), by Olive Mary Busby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lustige person im älteren englischen drama (bis 1642). (Mayer & Müller, 1902), by Eduard Eckhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bobos na côrte, obra póstuma (Portugália editora, 1923), by Antonio Maria José de Mello Silva Cesar e Menezes Sabugosa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fool; his social and literary history (Doubleday, 1961), by Enid Welsford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fool; his social and literary history (Farrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935), by Enid Welsford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of noodles : stories of simpletons; or, Fools and their follies. (E. Stock, 1903), by W. A. Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of noodles: stories of simpletons; or, Fools and their follies. (E. Stock, 1992), by W. A. Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The marvellous adventures and rare conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass Newly collected, chronicled and set forth, in our English tongue (Trübner, 1860), by Alfred Henry Forrester and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der hofnarren. (D. Siegert, 1789), by Karl Friedrich Flögel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récreations historiques, critiques, morales, et d'érudition : avec l'histoire des fous en titre d'office ([publisher not identified], 1768), by M. Dreux du Radier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les deux fous : Histoire du temps de François Ier (1524) : précédée d'un essai historique sur les fous des rois de France (Delloye et Lecou, 1837), by P. L. Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein Schock Phantastn in einem Kasten : mit ihrem Pourtrait gar net in Kupffer gebracht und ausgelacht, samt einer Vorred. (Zu finden bey Johann Christoph Weigel in Nürnberg, 1700), by Johann Christoph Weigel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les bouffons (Hachette et cie., 1882), by A. Gazeau and P. Sellier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der ursprung des harlekin. Inaugural-dissertation, Strassburg. (Chemnitz, 1903), by Otto Driesen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fous et bouffons; étude physiologique, psychologique et historique. (Baillière, 1885), by Paul Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iurodstvo o Khriste i Khrista radi iurodivye vostochnoi i russkoi tserkvi; istoricheskii ocherk i zhitiia sikh podvizhnikov blagochestiia. (Izd. A.D. Stupina, 1902), by Ioann Kovalevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fous et bouffons; étude physiologique, psychologique et historique. (Baillière, 1888), by Paul Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Los bufones. (D. Cortezo, 1885), by A. Gazeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Hofnarren (G. Olms, 1977), by Karl Friedrich Flögel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lustige person im älteren englischen drama (bis 1642). (Mayer & Müller, 1902), by Eduard Eckhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Europe : ancient, modern, social, religious, political, military (F.A. Niccolls, 1880), by Dr. Doran (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of court fools (F. A. Niccolls, 1900), by John Doran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bobos na côrte : obra posthuma (Lisboa : Portugalia, 1923., 1923), by António Maria José de Melo César e Meneses Sabugosa and Aires de Ornelas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The History of Court Fools, by Dr. Doran (Gutenberg ebook)
• Schlupps, der Handwerksbursch; Mären und Schnurren (in German), by Clara Berg (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Nest of Ninnies, Simply of Themselves Without Compound (London: Printed by T. E. for J. Deane, 1608), by Robert Armin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Works of Robert Armin, Actor (1605-1609) (London: Printed for the subscribers, 1880), by Robert Armin, ed. by Alexander Balloch Grosart
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• Foole upon foole, or, Six sortes of sottes. A flat foole, a leane foole, a merry foole, [brace] and [brace] a fatt foole, a cleane foole, a verrie foole. Shewing their liues, humours and behauiours, with their want of wit in their shew of wisdome. Not so strange as true. (London : Printed for William Ferbrand, dwelling in Popes-head Allie neare the Royall Exchange., 1605), by Robert Armin (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Jester, by LM (Leslie Moore), illust. by Robert Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)

• Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Fête des foux, qui se faisoit autrefois dans plusieurs eglises ([s.n.], 1751), by Jean-Bénigne Lucotte Tilliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Fête des foux, qui se faisoit autrefois dans plusieurs eglises (Chez Marc-Michel Bousquet & compagnie, 1741), by Jean-Bénigne Lucotte Tilliot (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of court fools. (Niccolls, 1913), by Dr. Doran (page images at HathiTrust)

• The marvellous adventures and rare conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass Newly collected, chronicled and set forth, in our English tongue (Trübner, 1860), by Alfred Henry Forrester and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass: Newly collected, chronicled and set forth, in our English tongue, trans. by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, illust. by Alfred Crowquill (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Picture-book of Merry Tales, illust. by Horace Harral (Gutenberg ebook)
• The marvellous adventures and rare conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass (Melbourne: George Robertson, 1869), by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, Alfred Henry Forrester, George Robertson, and Bone & Son (page images at Florida)
• The Marvellous adventures and rare conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass (London: Trübner & Co., 1860), by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, illust. by Alfred Henry Forrester (page images at Florida)
• Strange surprising adventures of the venerable Gooroo Simple, and his five disciples, Noodle, Doodle, Wiseacre, Zany, and Foozle (London: Trübner & Co., 1861), by Costantino Giuseppe Beschi and Grey Goosequill, trans. by B. G. Babington, illust. by Alfred Crowquill (page images at Florida)

• Clowns & pantomimes (Houghton Mifflin, 1925), by M. Willson Disher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comical fellows (J.H. Thomson, 1863), by Andrew Halliday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clowns (F. Paillart, 1925), by Gérard d' Houville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of a clown (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931), by Isaac Frederick Marcosson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Fratellini, histoire de trois clowns (Société anonyme d'éditions, 1923), by Pierre Mariel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fous et bouffons; étude physiologique, psychologique et historique. (Baillière, 1885), by Paul Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fous et bouffons; étude physiologique, psychologique et historique. (Baillière, 1888), by Paul Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clown in native North America (1929), by Julian Haynes Steward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of a clown (Moffat, Yard, 1915), by Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Jules Turnour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slapstick and Dumbbell; a casual survey of clowns and clowning (J. Lauren., 1924), by Hiler Harzberg and Arthur Moss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Leben dreier Clowns. Aufzeichnungen nach Erinnerungen der Fratellini. (E. Reiss, 1926), by Hanns Heinz Ewers and E. R. Eckert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Autobiography of a Clown, by Isaac Frederick Marcosson (Gutenberg ebook)

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