Christopher Moore: Fool

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Partner:: Book Passage
Location:: Book Passage
Corte Madera, CA
Event Date:: 02.11.09
Speaker:: Christopher Moore
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Summary: Christopher Moore reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear, focusing on the character of the Fool.

Meet Lear's Fool, Pocket, and his less-than-masterful apprentice, Drool, as well as the king, his daughters, their husbands, and their associates in an unexpectedly illuminating and fun interpretation of a classic work.

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Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore is the author of eleven novels, including the international bestsellers, Lamb, A Dirty Job and You Suck. His latest novel is Fool, a retelling of King Lear from the perspective of Pocket, the Fool.

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01.: Introduction

03 min 10 sec

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02.: Readers Made of Awesome

03 min 57 sec

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03.: Chinese New Year Parade

03 min 46 sec

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04.: Taking Xanax at a Book Signing

03 min 29 sec

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05.: A Pretty Horny Book

04 min 41 sec

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06.: Observations of England

12 min 24 sec

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07.: Castles Are Kind of Shit

03 min 20 sec

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08.: Q & A

00 min 56 sec

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09.: Q1: Next Vampire Series Installment

00 min 52 sec

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10.: Q2: Emperor of San Francisco

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11.: Q3: Change Has Come to America

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12.: Q4: No Sequel to Lamb

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13.: Q5: The Idea for Lamb

02 min 00 sec

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14.: Q6: Negative Reviews

02 min 24 sec

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15.: Q7: Interest in the Supernatural

02 min 26 sec

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16.: Q8: Reappearing Characters

03 min 25 sec

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Chris Moore on Xanax and Michael Phelps Bong Hit

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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

fool: Comic entertainer whose madness or imbecility, real or pretended, made him a source of amusement and gave him license to abuse and poke fun at even his most exalted patrons. Professional fools flourished in diverse societies from ancient Egyptian times until the 18th century. Often deformed, dwarfed, or crippled, fools were kept for luck as well as amusement, in the belief that deformity can avert the evil eye and that abusive raillery can transfer ill luck from the abused to the abuser. In some societies, they were regarded as inspired with poetic and prophetic powers. The greatest literary characterization of the fool is found in William Shakespeare's King Lear.; fool on britannica.com