A King In A Court Of Fools

Author : Larry Enright
Publisher : Larry Enright
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780983940302

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Genre: Humorous fiction, coming of age, nostalgia Age: Appropriate for ages 10 and up King in a Court of Fools begins with a book - The Book of Tom - a journal writing assignment from Tom Ryans sixth-grade teacher, Sister Jeanne Lorette. Thats what she called it. Tom called it punishment. In it, he chronicles the adventures of the Caswell Gang, a group of siblings and friends with two things in common - their love of adventure and their allegiance to Tom, their king. The 1950s book was misplaced a long time ago, and all the children have since grown up, but Harry, Toms youngest brother, still remembers it and retells for us one of its stories in a nostalgic, heartwarming, and humorous way that will have you wishing for adventure, too.

Author : Dr. Doran (John)
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Fools and jesters
ISBN : OXFORD:600053131

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The History of Court Fools by Dr. Doran (John) Pdf

Author : John Doran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10434877

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The History of Court Fools by John Doran Pdf

Author : Margaret Campbell Barnes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547115007

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King's Fool by Margaret Campbell Barnes Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "King's Fool" by Margaret Campbell Barnes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Beatrice K. Otto
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226640914

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Fools Are Everywhere by Beatrice K. Otto Pdf

In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history—the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, from the courts of ancient China and the Mogul emperors of India to those of medieval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. With a wealth of anecdotes, jokes, quotations, epigraphs, and illustrations (including flip art), Otto brings to light little-known jesters, highlighting their humanizing influence on people with power and position and placing otherwise remote historical figures in a more idiosyncratic, intimate light. Most of the work on the court jester has concentrated on Europe; Otto draws on previously untranslated classical Chinese writings and other sources to correct this bias and also looks at jesters in literature, mythology, and drama. Written with wit and humor, Fools Are Everywhere is the most comprehensive look at these roguish characters who risked their necks not only to mock and entertain but also to fulfill a deep and widespread human and social need.

Author : John Southworth
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752479866

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Fools and Jesters at the English Court by John Southworth Pdf

Fools have been a feature of virtually every recorded culture in the history of civilization, making significant contributions to the development of early theatre and literary drama. This book offers a reign by reign chronicle of English court fools.

Author : Amanda Foody
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781488034282

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King of Fools by Amanda Foody Pdf

To survive in the City of Sin, an innocent girl must choose her new identity in this dark YA fantasy—the sequel to Ace of Shades. Indulge your vices in the City of Sin, where a sinister street war is brewing and fame is the deadliest killer of them all. Prim and proper Enne Salta never expected to team up with an infamous con man like Levi Glaiyser. But winning the Shadow Game was not the victory they imagined. Now the duo are wanted for murder and Enne is forced to live in disguise as Séance, a mysterious figure of the underworld. Desperate to build his empire, Levi makes a deal with the estranged son of Mafia donna Vianca Augustine, while Enna remains trapped by Vianca’s binding oath, unsure whether to embrace the role of refined lady or cunning street lord. As they walk a path of unimaginable wealth, a dangerous game of crime and politics swirls around them. And when unforeseen players enter, they must each make an impossible choice: sacrifice everything . . . Or die as legends.

Author : Phillipa Vincent Connolly
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526720078

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Disability and the Tudors by Phillipa Vincent Connolly Pdf

Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death before the advent of modern medicine, so how did a society support the disabled amongst them? For centuries, disabled people and their history have been overlooked - hidden in plain sight. Very little on the infirm and mentally ill was written down during the renaissance period. The Tudor period is no exception and presents a complex, unparalleled story. The sixteenth century was far from exemplary in the treatment of its infirm, but a multifaceted and ambiguous story emerges, where society’s ‘natural fools’ were elevated as much as they were belittled. Meet characters like William Somer, Henry VIII’s fool at court, whom the king depended upon, and learn of how the dissolution of the monasteries contributed to forming an army of ‘sturdy beggars’ who roamed Tudor England without charitable support. From the nobility to the lowest of society, Phillipa Vincent-Connolly casts a light on the lives of disabled people in Tudor England and guides us through the social, religious, cultural, and ruling classes’ response to disability as it was then perceived.

Author : Amanda Holohan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Premier's Reading Challenge
ISBN : 073331886X

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The King's Fool by Amanda Holohan Pdf

If there's one thing that Perry Brightfield has learned in her fifteen years of life, it's that kids can smell a freak. Perry has no home and no parents. Her guardian Jurd says she's not from this world at all. Now, cast into a land terrorised by the evil Collector of Children, Perry Brightfield is about to discover just how different she really is ...

Author : Jeffrey Kahan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135973650

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King Lear by Jeffrey Kahan Pdf

Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink

Author : John Doran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z225111300

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The History of Court Fools by John Doran Pdf

Author : Dr. Doran (John)
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Fools and jesters
ISBN : HARVARD:32044005050901

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The History of Court Fools by Dr. Doran (John) Pdf

Author : Dana Fradon
Publisher : Dutton Childrens Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0525450742

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The King's Fool by Dana Fradon Pdf

Examines the role of fools or jesters in medieval and Renaissance society and describes such individuals as Will Sommers of sixteenth-century England and Querno of sixteenth-century Italy.

Author : Mahi Binebine
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857058232

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The King's Fool by Mahi Binebine Pdf

Sidi is dying. In the last days of this all-powerful tyrant, his faithful court fool takes stock of the decades he has spent in the king's service. For the many years have left certain indelible wounds. During his service, the fool has been the king's closest counsel, his most trusted companion and adviser, privy to the king's deepest secrets and most intimate thoughts. It is an honoured position for which many other courtiers would pay a hefty price. Something the fool understands only too well, for this closeness has indeed come at a terrible cost. What price the confidence of a great king? Is it stories, jokes, witty repartee? Or does the debt fall closer to home? Perhaps it must be paid far from the magnificent palaces, feasting and festivities of the royal court. Perhaps it must be paid in the death jails of a formidable prison fortress far out in the desert; a place so feared that few dare to speak its name . . . Translated from the French by Ben Faccini

Author : John Southworth
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752479866

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Fools & Jesters at the Eng Court by John Southworth Pdf

Fools have been a feature of virtually every recorded culture in the history of civilization, making significant contributions to the development of early theatre and literary drama. This book offers a reign by reign chronicle of English court fools.