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- Alpalhão, Margarida, Carlos Clamote Carreto & Isabel de Barros Dias, eds., O Jogo do Mundo (IELT – Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, 2017).
- Anderson, Alistair R., and Lorraine Warren, ‘The entrepreneur as hero and jester: Enacting the entrepreneurial discourse’, International Small Business Journal, 29:6 (2011), pp. 589-609.
- Andrews, Susan Patricia, ‘Representing Mount Wutai’s Past: A Study of Chinese and Japanese Miracle Tales about the Five Terrace Mountain’, PhD thesis, Columbia University, 2013.
- Anzaldua, Saraliza, ‘Clowning Around: Monstrous politics and the “Creepy Clown” phenomenon of 2016’, paper presented at the R.A.W. Conference 2017, University of Texas, Dallas.
- Babula, William, ‘Shakespeare and His Actors: An essay on clowns, fools, tragedians, and women, and the men and boys who played them’, Journal of the Wooden O Symposium, 8, pp. 1-10.
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- Bartlett, Barbara, ‘“The Lord That Counseled Thee to Give Away thy Land”: The wardship controversy in the First Quarto version of King Lear’, M.A. thesis, University of Oklahoma, 2019.
- Bateson, Paul Patrick Gordon, and Paul Martin, Play, playfulness, creativity and innovation (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
- Beare, Zachary, ‘Softies Like Me: The foolish work of fat queer pedagogy’, Writing on the Edge, 29:1 (2018), pp. 78-90.
- Belanger, Jillian, Speaking Truth to Power: Stand-Up Comedians as Sophists, Jesters, Public Intellectuals and Activists (University of Rhode Island, 2017).
- Bell, Robert Huntley, Shakespeare’s great stage of fools (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
- Beloff, Laura, ‘Ludic Mode: Irony and wearable devices’, in Homo Ludens Ludens (LABoral: Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, 2008).
- Beloff, Laura, ‘The Hybronaut and the Umwelt: Wearable technology as artistic strategy’, Ph.D thesis, University of Plymouth, 2013.
- Bennaa, Youcef, ‘Feminism’s last frontier in the quest for social theory: American stand-up in the age of political correctness’, Arab World English Journal, 4:3 (August 2020), pp. 34-45.
- Beuving, Joost, ‘The anthropologist as jester, anthropology as jest?’, Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale, 25:3 (2017), pp. 353-63.
- Bevis, Matthew, Wordsworth’s Fun (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019).
- Biryukova, Marina, in Russian: ‘Ludic aspects in Russian religious-philosophical literature at the turn of the 20th century’, Russian Literature, 90 (2017), pp. 45-82.
- Bjorn, Pernille and Valeria Borsotti, ‘Humor and Stereotypes in Computing: An Equity-focused Approach to Institutional Accountability’, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), July 2022.
- Bloemendal, Jan; Arjan van Dixhoorn & Elsa Strietman (eds), Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450–1650 (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
- Bois, Christian, ‘Learning about Sancho Panza and foreign cousins: A case for introducing the future of e-learning within the semantic web’, Proceedings of the 2002 EDEN Annual Conference, Granada, Spain (16-19 June 2002), pp. 340-345.
- Borbely, Stefan, Mitologie Generala (Cluj: Editura Limes, 2004).
- Bordeaux, Joel, The Mythic King: Raja Krishnacandra and early modern Bengal, Ph.D thesis, Columbia University, 2015.
- Brown, Pamela Allen, Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).
- Bruner, M. Lane, Rhetorical unconsciousness and political psychoanalysis (University of South Carolina Press, 2019).
- Burgess, Sarah, ‘Rhetoric: A Fool’s Profession?’, University of South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory, no date.
- Callahan, William A., ‘Citizen Ai: Warrior, Jester, and Middleman’, The Journal of Asian Studies, 73:4 (2014), pp. 899-920.
- Campbell, Charles and Johan H. Cilliers, Preaching Fools: The Gospel as a Rhetoric of Folly (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2012).
- Campbell, Charles, ‘Principalities, Powers, and Fools: Does preaching make an ethical difference’, paper delivered at the 8th international conference of Societas Homiletica, Copenhagen, Denmark (19-25 July 2008).
- Campbell, Stephen J. ed., Artists at Court: Image-making and Identity 1300-1550 (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2015).
- Castro, Raul, ‘En¡Asu Mare!: Rituales de clase y distincion en el nuevo cine de entretenimiento Peruano’, Cuaderno de Trabajo, 39 (March 2017), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales.
- Cheinman, Ksenia, ‘Reading Nathalie Sarraute through the lens of Jean Baudrillard: challenging consumers and clichés’, M.A. thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009.
- Chen, Khin-Wee, ‘”Sarcasm might be entertaining but it doesn’t solve our national problems”: What happens when a Malaysian politican plays the fool?’, Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 48 (2016), pp. 142-66.
- Chey, Jocelyn, & Jessica Milner Davis (eds), Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011).
- Chey, Jocelyn, & Jessica Milner Davis (eds), Humour in Chinese Life and Culture: Resistance and Control in Modern Times (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013).
- Chłopicki, Władysław, and Dorota Brzozowska, ‘Polish highlander jokes and their targets’, The European Journal of Humour Research, 5:4 (2017), pp. 67-84.
- Chriss, James, ‘Georg Simmel’s Social Geometry’, Department of Criminology, Anthropology, and Sociology, Cleveland State University (2017).
- Clark, Timothy, & Iain Mangham, ‘Stripping to the Undercoat: A review and reflections on a piece of organization theatre’, Organization Studies, 25:5 (2004).
- Classen, Albrecht, Deutsche Schwankliteratur des 16. Jahrhunderts: Studien zu Martin Montanus, Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof und Michael Lindener (Tucson: University of Arizona, 2008).
- Clegg, S. R., Cunha, M. P. E., Rego, A., & Berti, M., ‘Speaking truth to power: The academic as jester stimulating management learning’, Management Learning (September 2021).
- Clewis, Robert R., Kant’s Humorous Writings: An Illustrated Guide (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020).
- Coachman, E. de F., ‘”O worthy fool: motley is the only wear”: os atores cômicos do palco shakespeariano’, Cadernos de Pós -Graduação em Letras, 21:1 (2021), pp. 184-96.
- Comer, Debra R. & Michael Schwartz, ‘The problem of humiliation in peer review’, Ethics and Education, 9:2 (May 2014), pp. 141-56.
- Cook-Greuter, Susanne, ‘The Construct-Aware Stage of Ego Development and its Relationship to the Fool Archetype’, Integral Review, 14:1 (August 2018).
- Correa, Felipe Botelho, ‘Zé Povos e Pierrots: Estratégias visuais nas revistas populares ilustradas no Brasil no inicio do século XX’, Revista Iberoamericana, 85:267 (April-June 2019), pp. 497-513.
- Crowl, Samuel, ‘Lear’s Fool on Film: Peter Brook, Grigori Kozintsev, Akira Kurosawa’, in Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (eds), Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 33-49.
- Cunha, M. P. E., Rego, A., Clegg, S. R., & Berti, M., Paradoxes of Power and Leadership (London: Routledge, 2021).
- Cuthbertson, Thomas, ‘The fool’s replies: Towards a poetics of folly in Shakespeare’s comedies’, Ph.D. thesis, Department of English, Indiana University, 2014.
- Dajani, Deena (2015) ‘Foolish Citizens,’ in Engin Isin (eds), Citizenship after Orientalism (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp 237-262.
- Danesi, Marcel, Popular culture: Introductory perspectives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
- Danesi, M., ‘Spectacle-Power: Why we hate to love and love to hate pop culture’, in X-Rated! (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 141-63.
- Danielson, Magnus & Torbjörn Rolandsson, ‘Politicians as entertainers: A political performance of the personal, Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 34:6 (July 2020).
- Davis, Jennifer J., Bad Subjects: Libertine Lives in the French Atlantic, 1619-1814 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023).
- Dekker, Sidney, Drift into failure: From hunting broken components to understanding complex systems (CRC Press, 2016).
- Déry, Catherine, ‘Art, Internet et dissidence en Chine: le cas d’Ai Weiwei’, M.A. thesis, University of Montreal, 2018.
- Dickason, Kathryn, ‘From Satanic Minister to Holy Model: The Sacralization of the Medieval Jongleur’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2023).
- Doebler, Peter L., ‘Bibliography for the Holy Fool in Religion and the Arts’, Academia.edu.
- Donian, Jennalee, Taking Comedy Seriously: Stand-up’s Dissident Potential in Mass Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
- Dudithius, Andreas (1533-89), Epistulae: 1581-1589, Nicolaus Szymanski and Ida Radziejowska, eds. (Budapest: Reciti, 2019), vol. 7.
- Elias, Hajni, ‘Laughter and Lamentation: Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220) “Spirit” Entertainers from Sichuan, China’, Arts of Asia, Spring 2023, pp. 97-108.
- Equestri, Alice, Literature and intellectual disability in early modern England: folly, law and medicine, 1500-1640 (Routledge, 2021).
- Equestri, Alice, ‘Wandering Fools and Foolish Vagrants: Folly on the Road in Early Modern English Culture’, in Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways, Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus, eds., (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), pp. 127-.
- Equestri, Alice, Armine… thou art a foole and knaue: The Fool of Shakespeare’s Romances (Rome: Carocci Editore, 2016).
- Euchner, Jim, ‘The Corporate Jester’, Research-Technology Management, 63:1 (2020), pp. 10-11.
- Ezgi Dikici, Ayşe, Imperfect Bodies, Perfect Companions? Dwarfs and Mutes at the Ottoman Court in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, M.A. thesis, Sabancı University, 2006.
- Fellion, David Matthew, ‘Wise folly in the British realist novel’, Ph.D thesis, Cornell University, 2012.
- Foss, Karen A. & Sonja K. Foss, ‘An Explication of Visual Enactment in Advanced Style: Fashioning a challenge to the ideology of old age’, Western Journal of Communication, 84:2 (August 2019), pp. 1-25.
- Frankenburg, Ronnie, ‘Role of ethnographic argument in the prediction and / or creation of social futures’, Twenty-First Century Society, 3:2 (June 2008), pp. 175-85.
- Frankham, Jo, ‘Employability and higher education: the follies of the ‘Productivity Challenge’in the Teaching Excellence Framework’, Journal of Education Policy, 32:5 (2017), pp. 628-641.
- Frost, Anthony, and Ralph Yarrow, Improvisation in drama, theatre and performance: History, practice, theory (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).
- Galambos, Imre, Dunhuang Manuscript Culture: End of the first millennium (De Gruyter, 2020).
- Gallant, Christine, Keats and romantic celticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
- Gao Zhipeng & Katherine Bischoping, ‘The Communist hero and the April Fool’s joke: The cultural politics of authentication and fakery’, Social Anthropology, 27:3 (August 2019), pp. 438-54.
- Geethanadani, Kasi, & Rajkumar, S., ‘”Better a Witty fool than a foolish wit” – Who are these Fools?’, International Journal of Social Science and Human Research, 4:8 (August 2021), pp. 2194-97.
- Ghadessi, Touba, Portraits of human monsters in the Renaissance: dwarves, hirsutes, and castrati as idealized anatomical anomalies (Bristol, CT: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018).
- Goldberg, Amos, ‘A Fool or a Prophet: Rubinstein the Warsaw Ghetto Jester‘, The 2019 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 13 March 2019.
- Goldstein, Carl, Print Culture in Early Modern France: Abraham Bosse and the Purposes of Print (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
- Gommans, Jos, ‘Cosmopolitanism and Imagination in Nayaka South India: Decoding the Brooklyn Kalamkari‘, Archives of Asian Art, 70:1 (April 2020), pp. 1–21.
- Goodey, Christopher, A History of Intelligence and ‘Intellectual Disability’: The shaping of psychology in early modern Europe (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2011).
- Göpfert, Mirco, ‘On Dictators and Clowns’, Anthropology Today, 38:3 (June 2022), pp. 22-24.
- Goto, Courtney T., The Grace of Playing: Pedagogies for Leaning into God’s New Creation (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016).
- Goto, Courtney T., ‘Teaching love: Embodying prophetic imagination through clowning’, Religious Education, 111:4 (2016), pp. 398-414.
- Graham, Seth Benedict, A Cultural Analysis of the Russo-Soviet Anekdot, Ph.D thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2003.
- Grau, Marion, ‘Fool’s Errand: Holy fools and divine folly as hermeneutical figures’, in Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 143-162.
- Gregoli, Roberta, ‘Representations of gender and sexuality in Brazilian popular cinema’, Ph.D thesis, University of Oxford, 2013
- Griffiths, Morwenna & Michael Adrian Peters, ‘”I knew Jean-Paul Sartre”: Philosophy of education as comedy’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 46:2 (October 2012), pp. 132-47.
- Gril, Johan, The Colbert Report: Between irony and journalism, a criticism of the US mainstream media and political institutions, M.A. thesis, Science Po Toulouse, 2017.
- Hall, Sam, Shakespeare’s Folly: Philosophy, Humanism, Critical Theory (Routledge, 2016).
- Hammer, Danielle Loree, ‘A Changing Home: Displaced trauma, madness, and the specter of nation in new Irish literature’, dissertation.
- Hammett, David, Laura S. Martin & Izuu Nwankwọ, Humour and Politics in Africa (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023)
- Harris, James C., ‘Jester with a Lute’, Arch Gen Psychiatry, 68:4 (2011), pp. 338.
- Heetderks, Angela, ‘Witty Fools and Foolish Wits: Performing cognitive disability in English literature, c. 1380-c. 1602’, Ph.D thesis, University of Michigan, 2014.
- Henriksen, Helle Zinner, Tom McMaster & David Wastell, ‘Fooling Around: The corporate jester as an effective change agent for technological innovation’, in R.L. Baskerville, L. Mathiassen, J. Pries-Heje, J.I DeGross eds., Business Agility and Information Technology Diffusion (Boston: Springer, 2005, pp. 129-44.
- Hetherington, Anna Ratner, ‘Bruegel’s Fools and Melancholics’, in ‘Melancholy Figures: From Bosch to Titian’, Ph.D thesis, Columbia University, 2013, pp. 128-73.
- Heywood, Russell G., ‘Autoethnography for Extraterrestrials’, Journal of Autoethnography, 1:2 (May 2020), pp. 175-85.
- Hietalahti, J., ‘Carl Jung and the Role of Shadow and Trickster in Political Humor: Social Philosophical Analysis’, in C. P. Martins, ed., Comedy for Dinner and Other Dishes (Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos, 2019), pp. 20-41.
- Hiscock, Andrew, and Lina Perkins Wilder, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory (Routledge, 2017).
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- Hyde, Gillian, ‘Influential partnerships: A possible role for a modern-day court jester’, in P. Garrard eds., The Leadership Hubris Epidemic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 179-92.
- Iuga, Anamaria, & Georgiana Vlahbei, ‘The Mute: Ritual and Transgressive Meanings of the Masked Character in the Romanian Căluş Ritual’, Folklore, 87 (December 2022), pp. 37-72.
- Izzo, Gianni, ‘Playing the fool: jesters of the Safavid and Zand courts’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (August 2023), pp. 1-15.
- Jandric, Petar, ‘Academic Community in Transition: Critical liberatory praxis in the network society’, in Tomayess Issa & others eds., Information Systems and Technology for Organizations in a Networked Society (IGI Global, 2013), pp. 88-106.
- Jangir, Rajpal, ‘Tracing the Tradition of Comic and Constructive Criticism by Jesters in Imperial Courts of India’, Dialog: Journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, 36 (Autumn 2020).
- Jerónimo, Nuno A. & José Carlos Alexandre, ‘O feitiço do tempo da comédia’, Comunicação e Sociedade, 35 (June 2019), pp. 61-76.
- Jerónimo, Nuno A. & José Carlos Alexandre, ‘Comedy’s time spell’, Comunicação e Sociedade, 35 (June 2019), pp. 77-91.
- Jerónimo, Nuno A., José Carlos Alexandre, & A. Tamulevičiūtė -Šekštelienė, ‘O riso infeccioso da pestilência: a comédia em tempos de pandemia’ (‘The infectious laughter of pestilence: comedy in times of pandemic’), in B. Reis, Um mundo de incertezas: as leituras possíveis de um tempo pandémico (Lisboa: NIP-C@M & UAL, 2021), pp. 185-214.
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- Khatir, Mohammad, ‘The political potential of humour in graphic design’, M.A. thesis, Aalto University, 2018.
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- Kitts, Thomas M., and Nick Baxter-Moore, eds., The Routledge companion to popular music and humor (Routledge, 2019).
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- Landfester, Ulrike, ‘The Invisible Fool: Botho Strauss’s Postmodern Metadrama and the History of Theatrical Reality’, in The Play within the Play: The Performance of Meta-Theatre and Self-Reflection, Gerhard Fischer and Bernhard Greiner eds. (Brill, 2007), pp. 129-42.
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