History of Jester's job... help! what did the jester do? what was his job, a

Question: History of Jester's job!.!.!. help! what did the jester do!? what was his job, and some history of it !?
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Fools Are Everywhere
The Court Jester Around the World
Beatrice K!. Otto

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Fooling Around the World:
The History of the Jester
(from Chapter 1: Facets of the Fool and Chapter 7: Stultorum Plena Sunt Omnia, or Fools Are Everywhere)

"Who Is Not a Fool!?" ["Qui non stultus!?"]
—Horace (65-8 B!.C!.), Satires, 2!.3!.158

Then come jesters, musicians and trained dwarfs,
And singing girls from the land of Ti-ti,
To delight the ear and eye
And bring mirth to the mind!.
—Sima Xiangru (ca!. 179-117 B!.C!.), Rhapsody on the Shanglin Park
The jester is an elusive character!. The European words used to denote him can now seem as nebulous as they are numerous, reflecting the mercurial man behind them: fool, buffoon, clown, jongleur, jogleor, joculator, sot, stultor, scurra, fou, fol, truhan, mimus, histrio, morio!. He can be any of these, while the German word Narr is not so much a stem as the sturdy trunk of a tree efflorescent with fool vocabulary!. The jester's quicksilver qualities are equally difficult to pin down, but nevertheless not beyond definition!.

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