You don’t do this show without Beatrice Otto.
Colin McEnroe, WNPR radio show host, on a programme about fools.
I’m picking up good citations … it’s giving me excitations.
‘Despite this book’s impressive scholarship, it is never pedantic. Otto writes with a contagious enthusiasm, and tells dozens of ancient stories with the wit of a comedian.
For lively, lavishly illustrated talks, interviews or lectures on fools and jesters, and the humanizing power of humour, please get in touch.
The court jester is universal ... but is he still relevant?
A study of the role of the court jester and its potential in modern organisations, including a job description if you need to improve productivity and well-being in your outfit.
An hour long radio programme on WNPR dedicated to fools and jesters, hosted by Colin McEnroe, with Beatrice and some excellent other contributors.
‘Who’s the Fool?’, Lincoln Center Theatre Review, King Lear program, Winter/Spring 2004, no. 37.
‘Of monks and madmen: court jesters in Italy’, Royal Opera, reprinted for every performance of Rigoletto.
Book reviews of: Fools and Jesters of the English Court; Laughing Matters: The Comic Tradition in India; Shakespeare the Player; Playing Commedia; Two Jews on a Train; I Laugh Therefore I Am; Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters, and others.
Cie Vagalum Tum Tum, at the children’s theatre of Sao Paulo, November 2018.
Expo17, University of Leeds, on becoming a writer, October 2017.
Bouquins-à-Gogo, Leukerbad, on Fools Are Everywhere, October 2017.
DePaul University Humanities Centre, Chicago, ‘Transformations: Clowns, Jesters, and Tricksters: Laughing from Inside the Outside’, May 2017.
Hanken School of Economics, on ‘The Freshness of Fools, or fixing things through humour’, Helsinki, February 2015.
Appledore Book Festival, talk on ‘Fools Are Everywhere’, Appledore, Devon, September 2008.
Beijing Book Club, talk on ‘Fools Are Everywhere’, Beijing, June 2005.
Chicago University Press, author interview.
Podcast for Jason Peck, April 2019.
National Public Radio, WNPR Connecticut, The Colin McEnroe Show, ‘Jesters and Fools, A history of wit and whimsy’, April 2016.
BBC World Service, The Why Factor, May 2014.
National Public Radio, WICN, Inquiry, interviewed by Mark Lynch, November 2007.
BBC Radio 3, interviewed by Michael Rosen for the Rigoletto interval, March 2002.
Australian National Radio, December 2001.
BBC World Service, Outlook, May 2001.
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