Expert contributors provide alphabetically arranged entries for some 60 fools and jesters ranging from Woody Allen, Lucille Ball, and the Marx Brothers to Falstaff, Hephaestus, and Loki.
Preface Introduction Woody Allen: The Clown as Tragic Hero by Douglas Brode The Anthropology of Fools by C. Todd White Robert Armin by Edmund Miller Archy Armstrong by Dana E. Aspinall The Badin by Yvonne LeBlanc Lucille Ball by Bruce Henderson Jean Louis Barrault by Barry John Capella Beckett's Postmodern Clowns: Vladimir (Didi), Estragon (Gogo), Pozzo, and Lucky by Donald Perret Jack Benny by Janice Keller Birbal by Karen Treanor The Bishop of Fools by Simonette Cochis George Burns and Gracie Allen: The Jewish Vaudeville Tradition by Marcia B. Littenberg The Camp by C. Todd White Canio-Pagliacco and Petrouchka by William D. West Charlie Chaplin by Daniel Green The American Circus Clown by Del Ivan Janik Commedia ell'Arte by Angelica Forti-Lewis Native American Coyote Trickster Tales and Cycles by Ellen Rosenberg The Drag Queen by Carl Bryan Holmberg Sir John Falstaff by Alan Lutkus Feste by Neil Novelli W.C. Fields by Carl Bryan Holmberg Folly in "In the Praise of Folly" by Charles M. Kovich The Fop: "Apes and Echoes of Men": Gentlemanly Ideals and the Restoration by Moira E. Casey Gimpel by Alice R. Kaminsky Joseph Grimaldi by Nancy J.D. Hazelton Forrest Gump: Innocent Fool by James M. O'Brien Hamlet by Malcolm A. Nelson Hephaestus, Hermes, and Prometheus: Jesters to the Gods by Margery L. Brown The Heyoka of the Sioux by Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson Clowns of the Hopi by Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson Ben Jonson by Elizabeth Quay Sullivan Buster Keaton by Alan Lutkus William Kemp by James P. Bednarz Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy: Yin and Yang by Douglas Brode Lear's Fool by Alan Hager Loki, the Norse Fool by Carl Bryan Holmberg The Marx Brothers by Vicki K. Janik Merry Report by Vicki K. Janik Paul the Apostle by Mary A. Maleski Penasar of Bali: Sacred Clowns by Ron Jenkins Pierrot: Dramatic and Literary Mask by John D. Anderson Platus's Clowns by Aaron W. Godfrey Puck/Robin Goodfellow by Jonathan Gil Harris Punch and Judy by F. Scott Regan and Bradford Clark Francois Rabelais by William J. Kennedy Martha Raye by Bruce Henderson Rigoletto by Peter N. Chetta Schlemiels and Schlimazels by Joel Shatzky The Sleary Circus by Anthony Giffone Socrates as Fool in Aristophanes and Plato by David Luljak Will Sommers by Andrew Vogel Ettin The Sottie, the Sots, and the Fols by Donald Perret South African Political Clowning: Laughter and Resistance to Apartheid by Ron Jenkins Country Squires and Bumpkins by Janet S. Wolf The Three Stooges by Henry Sikorski Taishu Engeki: Subverting the Patterns of Japanese Culture by Ron Jenkins The Tarot Fool by David Conford The Tarot Fool in English and American Novels by David Conford Touchstone by Alan Lutkus The Vice Figure in Middle English Morality Plays by David N. DeVries The Vice in Henry Medwell's 'Nature' by David N. DeVries Mae West by Marlene San Miguel Groner The Yankee by Jack Hrkach The Zanni by James Phillips Selected General Bibliography Index
VICKI K. JANIK is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Farmingdale, where she teaches courses in Shakespeare, drama, comparative mythology, drama, and other topics.
?[T]his books should become a classic and is indispensible for
humor shelves in any library.?-International Journal of Humor
?By taking fools seriously and by recognizing their value in
cultural criticism, the editor has performed a monumental service
to the state of learning; fools point to the instability of
language and the fallibility of reason, ' and they hold secrets of
their societies. A must for all reader levels.?-Choice
?This work is highly recommended for its extensive coverage and a
scholarly, yet readable analysis of who or what makes us laugh--and
why.?-ARBA
"�T�his books should become a classic and is indispensible for
humor shelves in any library."-International Journal of Humor
"[T]his books should become a classic and is indispensible for
humor shelves in any library."-International Journal of Humor
"This work is highly recommended for its extensive coverage and a
scholarly, yet readable analysis of who or what makes us laugh--and
why."-ARBA
"By taking fools seriously and by recognizing their value in
cultural criticism, the editor has performed a monumental service
to the state of learning; fools point to the instability of
language and the fallibility of reason, ' and they hold secrets of
their societies. A must for all reader levels."-Choice
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