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Il fool shakespeariano (o scespiriano) è un tipo di personaggio che William Shakespeare usa frequentemente nelle sue opere.
Shakespeare's fools address themes of love, psychic turmoil, personal identity, and many other innumerable themes that arise in Shakespeare, and in modern theater. Shakespeare's earlier fools often seem to be written for the particular talents of famous Elizabethan actor, William Kempe.
Clowns and jesters were featured in Shakespeare's plays, and the company's expert on jesting was Robert Armin, author of the book Foole upon Foole. In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Feste the jester is described as "wise enough to play the fool". In Scotland, Mary, Queen of Scots, had a jester called Nichola.
The word ‘fool’ is rather loosely used these days but it is a technical term in Shakespeare’s plays. The fool in Elizabethan drama is someone employed to entertain a king or a duke or any other rich person who needs someone to entertain him.
15 gen 2009 · The fool occupies an uneasy place in Shakespear's plays-half way between character and commentator, in part carrying over his real-life role as jester into the ‘court-world’ of the play, but also serving as a metadramatic intermediary between author and audience.
William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, conosciuta comunemente come First Folio, fu la prima raccolta delle opere di Shakespeare, pubblicata nel 1623 a cura di John Heminges e Henry Condell; contiene 36 testi, di cui 18 stampati per la prima volta, elencati come tragedie, commedie e drammi storici.
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" is the beginning of the second sentence of one of the most famous soliloquies in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth. It takes place in the beginning of the fifth scene of Act 5, during the time when the Scottish troops, led by Malcolm and Macduff, are approaching Macbeth's castle to besiege it.
