‘A Motley to the view’: the clothing of court fools in Tudor England
In this article, Zoe Screti explores the changing clothing of court fools in the Tudor period. Challenging traditional notions that court fools were clothed in motley or the parti-colours of their stage counterparts, it is argued that court fools were instead clothed in luxurious fabrics such as sil...
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The Midlands Historical Review
2018
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