A juggler, ventriloquist and court fool, he is above all a figure of lightness.
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Sand came to call herself Arthur's "little dwarf," a court fool permitted to speak truth to power, but she more often sounds like the noble Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
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These included an early 16th-century oil-on-panel portrait of Elisabet, the court fool of Anne of Hungary, wife of Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria, by the Flemish artist Jan Sanders van Hemessen.
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In the third book, Conspiracy, Masou looks after Gypsy Pete when he was hurt by a firework. He likes to try and scare the girls and in Haunted, Grace says it is the first time she has seen him speechless (when he is granted the honor of Court Fool, and quickly becomes the Queen's favourite).
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Tango does not follow him. Kyoami, the court fool, then jokes about Hidetora's predicament, only to be thrown out of the Third Castle. Shortly thereafter, Hidetora and his samurai retinue are besieged militarily by Taro and Jiro's combined forces. As Taro and Jiro's forces storm the castle, Taro is killed by a bullet fired by Jiro's general, Kurogane.
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During the supremacy of Kafur in Egypt, Abu Ja'far was considered as the chief of the ashraf. Knowledgeable and cultured, he was an expert in Alid genealogical matters and is said to have transmitted hadiths. According to Thierry Bianquis, he was renowned for his "proverbial piety". Abu Ja'far's travails with Kafur's court fool, Sibawaih, who played pranks on him and called him a "Meccan paedophile" reveal, according to Bianquis, a humility of character bordering on pusillanimity.
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In Shakespeare's Clown, David Wiles suggests that Robert Armin played the part of Touchstone in the first productions of As You Like It (p. 145). The addition of Armin to the Chamberlain's Men in 1599 and the character of Touchstone marked the beginning of a series of court fool characters; these characters differed greatly from earlier Shakespearean fools, typically played by William Kempe, because their humour is mainly derived from the fool's wit and intellect. The earlier fools of this period were often nothing but stooges.
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Lady from court, c. 1635 Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid, 1635, a court fool of Philip IV Besides the many portraits of Philip by Velázquez—thirty-four by one countOrtega y Gasset 1953, p. 45.—he painted portraits of other members of the royal family: Philip's first wife, Elisabeth of Bourbon, and her children, especially her eldest son, Don Baltasar Carlos, whom Velázquez first depicted at about two years of age. Cavaliers, soldiers, churchmen, and the poet Francisco de Quevedo (now at Apsley House), sat for Velázquez.
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Duke Senior's daughter, Rosalind, has been permitted to remain at court because she is the closest friend of Frederick's only child, Celia. Orlando, a young gentleman of the kingdom who at first sight has fallen in love with Rosalind, is forced to flee his home after being persecuted by his older brother, Oliver. Frederick becomes angry and banishes Rosalind from court. Celia and Rosalind decide to flee together accompanied by the court fool, Touchstone, with Rosalind disguised as a young man and Celia disguised as a poor lady.
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Meanwhile, the duke has decided to have a play written and performed that portrays him in a favourable light and the witches in a negative light. He thinks this will cause the witches to lose their power, and the people will like him. He sends the court Fool to Ankh-Morpork to recruit the same acting company that Tomjon was given to, which now resides in the Dysk Theatre on the river Ankh. The company make their way to Lancre, and perform the play for the King as asked.
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The story begins as the King of the Britons Constantius offers half his crown to his adviser Vortigern for his loyal service. Vortigern immediately plots the king's murder in order to take the crown for himself. Meanwhile, the court Fool warns two of Vortigern's children, Pascentius and Flavia, of the bad times ahead and the three of them leave the court with Flavia in drag. Constantius' sons Aurelius (Ambrosius Aurelianus) and Uter (Uther Pendragon), studying in Rome, receive word of Vortigern's treachery and go to Scotland to raise an army against their father's killer.
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These include references to eggplants, a vegetable that had become a stereotypical identifier of Jewish (and Muslim) food during this era. One such insult by Rodrigo de Harana directed specifically at Baena states, “a vos que andades sin obediencia/apóstata hecho con mucha blandura,” an insult that accuses Baena of apostasy, suggesting he has converted. These references, and the fact that nearly every court jester writing during this era was a Jewish convert (with the exception of Villasandino, one of Baena's most formidable literary adversaries and perhaps the most famous court fool of the era) make almost certain of Baena's heritage despite a lack of official documentation.
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The character Britta tends less toward severity, however, and more toward court fool, frequently engaging in slapstick physical comedy. Although she has unceasingly exhibited a lack of romantic interest in Jeff, Britta has acted on sexual feelings for him. She eventually sleeps with Jeff during a prolonged paintball match, and later embarrasses herself by publicly professing her "love" for him, which she claims, in the end, was merely the result of her compulsive competition with alpha-female rival Professor Slater. Surprisingly, Britta's embarrassing profession of love makes her popular with campus women at the beginning of her second year by giving her a reputation for fearlessness.
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That same year he appeared as Spooner in a production of No Man's Land at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, which later transferred to London's West End. In 2009, Bradley appeared as an animal rights activist in the popular BBC drama Ashes to Ashes, and appeared in BBC's The Street later that year. Bradley portrayed Will Somers, Henry VIII's court fool, in an episode of the Showtime series The Tudors in 2009. In 2010, he appeared in the film Another Year, which earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor from the London Film Critics Circle Awards. In 2011, 2013 and 2016, Bradley appeared as Lord Walder Frey in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
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In the second version, Tristan humiliates "Sir Daguenet the Fool" publicly by dunking him into a well, and later uses Dagonet's own sword to maim one of Dagonet's angry squires to protect a group shepherds who laughed at the scene. In a markedly more positive (and best known today) characterization by Thomas Malory in his seminal Le Morte d'Arthur, Dagonet is King Arthur's court fool who has been knighted in an award for his loyalty and comedic talents. The Knights of the Round Table use Dagonet to play practical jokes on their rivals or their enemies, at the same time protecting him from harm. In a rewrite of a scene from the Prose Tristan, Kay arranges for Brunor to joust with Dagonet at his first tournament in order to deprive him of the honour of defeating a true knight.
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Contemporary accounts and later historians portray Akhu Muslim as a proud and haughty man; Kafur's court fool, Sibawaih, is known to have frequently ridiculed him for this. Nevertheless, Akhu Muslim apparently possessed some military ability, as he was entrusted by the Ikhshidid ruler Abu'l-Misk Kafur with command of an army sent to protect the Hajj pilgrimage of 965 from attacks by the Bedouin tribe of the Banu Sulaym in Syria. Although not entirely successful in his mission—the constant Bedouin and Qarmatian raids on the overland Hajj caravans and the inability of the Ikhshidid regime to stop them led to their temporary cessation after 965—a few months before his death in April 968, Kafur appointed Akhu Muslim as governor of Palestine. After Kafur's death, an Ikhshidid prince, al-Hasan ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Tughj, had been named governor of Syria and Palestine.
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Nothing in the way of dances > came amiss to the airy monarch whose legs and arms seemed to spin round on > pivots and who seemed at once to stimulate the actions of the cockchafer and > the grasshopper. He was well assisted by Mr. Fawdon Vokes as the court fool > who had apparently danced himself out of his mind in his infancy and had > lived on tarantula spiders ever since. All the Misses Vokes (Victoria, > Jessie and Rosina), fascinated in their attire, ravishing as to their back > hair and amazing in their agility, were fully equal to the occasion. When > they didn’t dance they sang and danced simultaneously and then all the > Vokeses jumped on one another's backs and careered – so it seemed – into > immeasurable space.’ The Vokes family through their mother's brother, actor William F. Wood (1799–1855), were first cousins of American actress Rose Wood Morrison, who was the maternal grandmother of Hollywood starlets Constance Bennett and Joan Bennett.
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