Las figuras cómicas del mono y de los portadores de pintura corporal negra entre los nahuas prehispánicos y su transformación en la época colonial by Agnieszka Brylak

“…Due to the presence of the same types—the ape and the black or devil—in medieval and Renaissance popular and carnivalesque culture, part of this study will briefly mention the transformation of pre-Hispanic jesters and their fusion with their European counterparts that occurred in colonial times in New Spain.…”
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Costumul bufonului în documente, imagini și spectacol by Lia Codrina Conțiu

“…The Fool’s Costume in Documents, Images and Performance The fool’s costume, as it appears in the illustrations of the Psalms or the paintings of the medieval period and Renaissance, differs from the costume that the jesters wore at the court of the nobles or kings, be they innocent or artificial fools. …”
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Fisicofollia, quisquilie, pinzillacchere e varie diavolerie: il carnevale di Totò, principe-burattino by Rosario Castelli

“…In Totò’s proletarian mask, in his incessant gesticulation, in the linguistic paradoxes that characterise it, the traces of a stratified comic culture are instinctively condensed: from Aristophanes and Plautus to the commedia dell’arte, from medieval jesters to jonglerie. All debts that have been variously indicated and investigated by scholars and that have as their common denominator the technique of improvisation codified in 1699 by the Palermitan jurist Andrea Perrucci, author of the treatise Dell’arte rappresentativa premeditata. …”
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Planeta klaunów w konstelacji Słońca by Magdalena Hasiuk

“…In later productions, clowns reappeared as constitutive elements of the world represented on stage in two guises: as jesters in glimpses of the revolutionary cabaret in Mephisto (1979) and as a kind of buffer introducing new qualities of experience in the instalments of the Shakespearean cycle. …”
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Samtida mode eller antisemitism? Demonisering och rasistiska tendenser i medeltidens bildkonst by Herman Bengtsson

“…In some cases the anti-Semitic theme is further emphasized by various degrading symbols associated with the Jewry, like sows, owls, jesters and demonic creatures with horns. …”
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Biopsychosocial Examination of Claudius, The Fourth Emperor of Rome by Ebru Durmaz Akyüz, Hüseyin Üreten

“…As a child, Claudius was ridiculed by the court jesters and his sister, and was described by his mother, Antonia, as a "Freak" was defined as "a human being that nature started but could not complete". …”
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Omidi Tehrani, Modernist Archaist (A Study of Life and Poetry of One of the Unknown but Influential Poets of the Tenth Century) by Saeid Shafieioun

“…Unfortunately, his poems were scattered and uncompiled some years after his death and only one of the Shah Safi’s jesters attempted to prepare a manuscript of his divan following the order of Shah. …”
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A mischievous young rogue and a dwarf by Peter Carey

“…These included the para Nyai (personal female retainers), in particular the elderly Nyai Keparak, who carried the ruler's betelnut (sirih) box and spittoon (Carey 2008: 366, 403); the prajurit èstri (pasukan Langenkusumo) or Amazon corps who acted as the personal bodyguards of the ruler and were renowned for their skill on horseback (Carey 2008: 76-77); the polowijo or nonok (royal dwarves, the hydrocephalic and those with other unusual physical deformities) who acted as the court jesters (hansworst) and warders against evil; and the panji or young noblemen who formed part of the ruler's intimate circle much like the bachelor knights of the European medieval courts (Carey 2008: 179-80). …”
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Yoruba Epistemology, Art, Language and the Universe of Meanings: A Meta-Analysis by Michael O. Afolayan

“…Like in many Shakespearean plays, many truths are expressed in the acts of the jesters, not in the court of the privileged kings and pundits. …”
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Yoruba Epistemology, Art, Language and the Universe of Meanings: A Meta-Analysis by Michael O. Afolayan

“…Like in many Shakespearean plays, many truths are expressed in the acts of the jesters, not in the court of the privileged kings and pundits. …”
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