Welcome to Episode 68! We are joined by returning guest Aaron Odom, host of Euripides Eumenides: a Theater History Pod! We have such a great time in the Smoke Circle together (as we always do!) talking about the tangled web of royal family members during the course of WWI--and tangled it is! Next, the sisters tag team a brief history of the jester around the world. From Native American tribes to its ancient history in China, the jester was used for entertainment but also as an unofficial advisor and symbol for the commoner in the monarch's court.
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Mentioned In the Stories:
Episode 41 with Aaron talking about Entertainment in Ancient Rome and Wrestling as Theater and Sport
Picture of Queen Victoria's Family Tree (just the portion relevant to episode)
Tsar Nicholas II and King George V together
Visuals from Met Museum of Jester stick
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Source Materials:
History of the Jester--
Fools and Jesters at the English Court by John Southworth
https://allthatsinteresting.com/triboulet
https://thecurator.org/2021/02/02/the-jester-shakespeares-jesters/
https://www.jesterplanet.com/jester/around-the-world/
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/640914.html
https://www.samwoolfe.com/2022/12/ancient-origins-jester.html
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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
