...William Willeford STOREY ROBERT F.. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xvi + 224 pp. $15.00. Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 REVIEWS Pierrot: A Critical History of a Musk. By ROBERTF. STOREY.Princeton: Princeton University...

...J. L. Styan William Willeford. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969. xxii + 266 pp. $8.50. Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 REVIEWS The Fool and His Scepter: A Study in Clowns and Jesters and Their Audience...

... have profited immensely from Willeford’s commentary in the light of his researches. He draws freely upon the great comedians of the silent cinema, but these deserve to be balanced for a greater validity of historical evidence with the tradition of Harlequin, mask and mime, to be traced from...

...Heather Dubrow GRUDIN ROBERT. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1979. 217 pp. $14.00. Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 WILLIAM WILLEFORD 381 saying things worth saying on a proper scale...

... in Irish history and lore, being the name of a twelfth-century saint, “tradi- tionally believed to have had the gift of prophecy.”g William Willeford notes that fools, despite their unrelenting grossness and hyperbolic sexuality, are often regarded as sharing “magical and religious functions...

... for “A Raw Youth.” Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969. 570 pp. $15.00. Willeford, William. The Fool and His Scepter: A Study in Clowns and Jesters and Their Audience. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969. xxii + 265 pp. $8.50. ...