id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044018645507 Warde, Frederick B. The fools of Shakespeare; an interpretation of their wit, wisdom and personalities by Frederick Warde 1913 .txt text/plain 31102 2016 79 The requirements of a court fool are well described by Viola in "Twelfth Night," Act 3, Sc. 1. of men who in the character of court fool fool of our old plays denoted either a witty hireling theatrical fools and clowns of Shakespeare's time fool" and "Feste, the jester, that the Lady Olivia's oath, fool?" to which Touchstone replies as follows: "Of a certain knight who swore by his William, "Art thou wise?" William incautiously replies, "Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit." one of Shakespeare's fools who in the dramatis personae of the play is called a jester; and On his first appearance in the play, in Act 1, Scene 5, he is apparently seeking her good offices with her mistress, This fellow's wise enough to play the fool; This fellow's wise enough to play the fool; "I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art," I picture the Fool as a young-old man, not as ./cache/hvd.32044018645507.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044018645507.txt