Entertainment included music, juggling, clowning, and the telling of riddles. Many courts throughout English royal history employed entertainers and most had professional fools, sometimes called licensed fools. Phillippe VI's jester told him the English sailors "don't even have the guts to jump into the water like our brave French." English royal court jestersġ7th-century engraving of Will Sommers, Henry VIII's jester The best example of this is in 1340, when the French fleet was destroyed at the Battle of Sluys by the English. Jesters could also give bad news to the King that no-one else would dare deliver. Scholar David Carlyon has cast doubt on the "daring political jester", calling historical tales "apocryphal", and concluding that "popular culture embraces a sentimental image of the clown writers reproduce that sentimentality in the jester, and academics in the Trickster," but it "falters as analysis." His characteristic idiom suggests he is a 'natural' fool, not an artificial one, though his perceptiveness and wit show that he is far from being an idiot, however 'touched' he might be. Much to Gonerill's annoyance, Lear's 'all-licensed' Fool enjoys a privileged status. His folly could be regarded as the raving of a madman but was often deemed to be divinely inspired. The fool's status was one of privilege within a royal or noble household. In other words, both were excused, to some extent, for their behavior, the first because he "couldn't help it," and the second by decree.ĭistinction was made between fools and clowns, or country bumpkins. Whereas the natural fool was seen as innately nit-witted, moronic, or mad, the licensed fool was given leeway by permission of the court. One may conceptualize fools in two camps: those of the natural fool type and those of the licensed fool type. Excessive behaviour, however, could lead to a fool being whipped, as Lear threatens to whip his fool. Queen Elizabeth (reigned 1558-1603) is said to have rebuked one of her fools for being insufficiently severe with her. Regarded as pets or mascots, they served not simply to amuse but to criticise their master or mistress and their guests. donkey) ears or a red-flannel coxcomb and bells. parti-coloured) coat, hood with ass's (i.e. In Renaissance times, aristocratic households in Britain employed licensed fools or jesters, who sometimes dressed as other servants were dressed, but generally wore a motley (i.e. In ancient times courts employed fools and by the Middle Ages the jester was a familiar figure. Perfect Clear Footage by Flippy: youtube.The Royal Shakespeare Company provides historical context for the role of the fool: RETRY animation from Week 5 WLYR by Jakeneutron: /TheJakeneutron Tord voiced by Juno Songs: /channel/UCmam9sOUvleO0HFkhq0KLJgĬhalleng-EDD Composed and Arranged by philliplol: /philiplolzĮxtra Incidental Music arranged by RecD based on Challeng-EDD & Eddsworld MusicĪrt direction: crowbobot: /crowbobotĪgent Water Buffalo: /AGWater_Buffalo Tom voiced by SomeMusicalKid: /SomeMusicalKid The Girlfriend Voiced by Moop: /moopsterinoĮdd voiced by JassiVA: /jassiva The Boyfriend, Matt, Eduardo, Jon & Zanta voiced by RecD Written, performed, directed and edited by RecD Soundcloud: /recorderdude/challeng-edd-with-lyrics-by-recd-ft-juno-songs-friday-night-funkin-cover I hope you enjoy Boyfriend's quest through England to get Girlfriend a muffin! I watched the entirety of Eddsworld SIX TIMES to get it right. Challeng-EDD WITH LYRICS has been in the works since JANUARY.
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