Fools and jesters
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:Used for:- Court fools
- Jesters
- Jester
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The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies, by W. A. Clouston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Courts and courtiers- Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
- "Indiscretions" of Lady Susan (London: T. Butterworth, 1922), by Susan Mary Keppel Townley
- "Indiscretions" of Lady Susan (Lady Susan Townley) (New York: D. Appleton and company, 1922), by Susan Mary Keppel Townley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Own Affairs (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by Princess of Belgium Louise, trans. by Maude M. C. Ffoulkes
- My Own Affairs (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1921), by Princess of Belgium Louise, trans. by Maude M. C. Ffoulkes
- Reminiscences of Diplomatic Life: Being Stray Memories of Personalities and Incidents Connected with Several European Courts and Also with Life in South America Fifty Years Ago (London: A. and C. Black, 1913), by Lady Macdonell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Curial, by Alain Chartier, trans. by William Caxton (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875, From Contemporary Letters, by L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone (Gutenberg text)
- Things I Know About Kings, Celebrities, and Crooks (London: E. Nash and Grayson, Ltd., 1923), by William Le Queux (page images at HathiTrust)
- Loues Labors Lost (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1907), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Love's Labor's Lost, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
- Love's Labour's Lost (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
- Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
- Pericles, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
- Pericles (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
- Pericles (fifth quarto, 1630), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)
- The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)
- Loues Labors Lost (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1907), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Love's Labor's Lost, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
- Love's Labour's Lost (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
- Il Cortegiano: or, The Courtier, Written by Conte Baldassar Castiglione, and a New Version of the Same into English; Together With Several of His Celebrated Pieces, As Well Latin as Italian, Both in Prose and Verse; To Which is Prefix'd the Life of the Author (in Italian and English side by side; London: Printed by W. Bowyer, 1727), by Baldassarre Castiglione (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Book of the Courtier, by Baldassarre Castiglione, ed. by Walter Raleigh, trans. by Thomas Hoby (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- Il Cortegiano del Conte Baldesar Castiglione (second edition, in Italian; Florence: G. C. Sansoni, 1910), by Baldassarre Castiglione, ed. by Vittorio Cian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Master Walter Map's Book, De Nugis Curialium (Courtier's Trifles) (London: Chatto and Windus, 1924), by Walter Map, trans. by Frederick Tupper and Marbury Blade Ogle
- Master Walter Map's Book, De Nugis Curialium (Courtier's Trifles) (New York: Macmillan, 1924), by Walter Map, trans. by Frederick Tupper and Marbury Blade Ogle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Walter Map: De Nugis Curialium (Anecdota Oxoniensa Mediaeval and Modern Series #14; text in Latin and commentary in English; 1914), by Walter Map, ed. by M. R. James (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania (second edition, 1727), by Eliza Fowler Haywood (multiple formats at Google)
- Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901), by Stanley John Weyman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France (based on the 1922 J. Murray edition), by Stanley John Weyman (Gutenberg text)
- Frederick the Great and His Court: An Historical Romance, by L. Mühlbach, trans. by Mrs. Chapman Coleman (Gutenberg text)
- Henry VIII and His Court, by L. Mühlbach, trans. by Henry Niles Pierce (Gutenberg text)
- Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe; Count Hannibal; A Gentleman of France (New York : Longmans, Green and Co., 1921), by Stanley John Weyman
- Joseph II and His Court, by L. Mühlbach, trans. by A. de V. Chaudron (Gutenberg text)
- Joseph II and His Court: An Historical Novel (4 volumes in 1; Mobile, AL: S.H. Goetzel, 1864), by L. Mühlbach, trans. by A. de V. Chaudron
- Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709), by Delarivier Manley
- Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean (sixth edition, 4 volumes in 2; London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1720), by Delarivier Manley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Stories From Famous Ballads, for Children (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by Grace Greenwood, illust. by Hammatt Billings (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (London: Longmans, Green and Co., n.d.), by Andrew Lang, illust. by Richard Doyle and Edmund Evans (page images at ufl.edu)
- Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by John Harold Wilson (PDF at Ohio State)
- Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
- The Troubadours and Courts of Love (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895), by John Frederick Rowbotham
- March to the Sea, by David Weber and John Ringo (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
- March Upcountry, by David Weber and John Ringo (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
- The Prince of Graustark (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by George Barr McCutcheon, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
- The Prince of Graustark (1914), by George Barr McCutcheon (Gutenberg text)
- Truxton King: A Story of Graustark (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1909), by George Barr McCutcheon, illust. by Harrison Fisher
- We Few (included on a Baen CD image), by David Weber and John Ringo
- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)
- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (with illustrations), by Samuel Johnson (PDF at In Parentheses)
- Alroy (modern critical edition, based on the 1871 and 1833 editions), by Benjamin Disraeli, ed. by Sheila A. Spector (HTML at Romantic Circles)
- Alroy: or, The Prince of the Captivity (from an M. Walter Dunne edition, ca. 1904), by Benjamin Disraeli, illust. by Clare Victor Dwiggins (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
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