While the fool is often associated with the Middle Ages, the figure’s role evolved a great deal in the centuries that ...
The figure of the fool walked off the margins of medieval manuscripts into the unholy courts of the Renaissance, then returned to the page as Hamlet’s Yorick. Later, in the age of reason and ...
In 1968, much to the shock of Vancouver's establishment, the well-educated Foikis received a $3,500 Canada Council for the Arts grant to be the official town fool. That's roughly $26,000 in today ...