TY  - BOOK
AU  - Willeford, William
TI  - The fool and his scepter; a study in clowns and jesters and their audience
SN  - 0-8101-0533-0
PY  - 1969///
CY  - Evanston, IL
PB  - Northwestern Univ. Press
KW  - Fools and Jesters
KW  - FAST
N2  - 'For this purpose, [Willeford] uses his expertise as a critic of literature and his training and experience as a psychotherapist to analyze data drawn from a field wide enough to include ritual clowning of primitive societies, fool literature and court jesters of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Shakespearean tragedies, comic turns and vaudeville sketches drawn from the modern circus, stage, and screen.'
ER  -