Random minifig of the day: cas480

I like this face, we need more mature aged minifigures.

Did female jesters exist though? Singers perhaps but I dont think jesters.

Have 90+% of the parts via CAS437: Kingdoms - Jester, and swear I saw this set at one of the local 'education stores' years ago, but never grabbed it...

Harley Quinn

Huh. Not the minifig I thought it was. I got the male version from 7953.

@Brickchap said:
"I like this face, we need more mature aged minifigures.

Did female jesters exist though? Singers perhaps but I dont think jesters."

Off the top of my head I don’t think so, but I don’t think jesters ever really got catalogued the same way we did the kings they served so who knows, maybe there’s some slipped through the cracks of history. What would the term for a female jester be anyway, a jestress?

Where’s Viper?

@Crux said:
" @Brickalili said:
" @Brickchap said:
"I like this face, we need more mature aged minifigures.

Did female jesters exist though? Singers perhaps but I dont think jesters."

Off the top of my head I don’t think so, but I don’t think jesters ever really got catalogued the same way we did the kings they served so who knows, maybe there’s some slipped through the cracks of history. What would the term for a female jester be anyway, a jestress?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_jesters"

Oh neat, more than I thought. Quite noticeable how many of them worked for Tudor royalty, I guess those guys had a type!

@Brickalili said:
" @Crux said:
" @Brickalili said:
" @Brickchap said:
"I like this face, we need more mature aged minifigures.

Did female jesters exist though? Singers perhaps but I dont think jesters."

Off the top of my head I don’t think so, but I don’t think jesters ever really got catalogued the same way we did the kings they served so who knows, maybe there’s some slipped through the cracks of history. What would the term for a female jester be anyway, a jestress?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_jesters"

Oh neat, more than I thought. Quite noticeable how many of them worked for Tudor royalty, I guess those guys had a type!"

The Tudors have a type AND a font.

In fairness, I didn't know about female jesters either before I googled this in response to your question. Apparently, another name for "female jester" is "Jane", but "female jester" works just as well.

@Brickchap said:
"I like this face, we need more mature aged minifigures."

With this set, you've got plenty (albeit all with this exact face). I used one of them as a kid to make a minifigure of my mom.

It was introduced for one of the main characters from Atlantis, who lost the crow's feet/laugh lines in the animation. I guess even minifigures aren't free from unreasonable onscreen beauty standards.

@Brickchap said:
"I like this face, we need more mature aged minifigures.

Did female jesters exist though? Singers perhaps but I dont think jesters."

Keeping in mind that this type of jester probably would have been limited to one specific geographic region (Europe), and then also one specific range of time (Middle Ages, more or less?), there really weren’t a lot of options for women. Mostly it would have been to get married and start popping out babies, to work as a maid/nanny in a wealthy family’s household, or…to join a convent (assuming they existed at that time). I believe women during this time were basically banned from being stage performers, so female roles had to be played by men in drag. A jester really isn’t a role that would have needed to be gender-defined, so I doubt the concept of a female jester would have even occurred to anyone at that time.

In the modern day, this no longer matters. Go to a ren fair, and you’re bound to see some of the cultural boundaries have shifted, especially when it comes to allowing women to be stage performers (especially since, technically, _everyone_ who works for the festival is a performer to some degree).

@Brickalili said:
" @Crux said:
" @Brickalili said:
" @Brickchap said:
"I like this face, we need more mature aged minifigures.

Did female jesters exist though? Singers perhaps but I dont think jesters."

Off the top of my head I don’t think so, but I don’t think jesters ever really got catalogued the same way we did the kings they served so who knows, maybe there’s some slipped through the cracks of history. What would the term for a female jester be anyway, a jestress?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_jesters"

Oh neat, more than I thought. Quite noticeable how many of them worked for Tudor royalty, I guess those guys had a type!"

*sigh* I had that typed up last night, and was having trouble getting the page to finish loading to the point where the comment buttons would work, so I missed a bunch of these comments when I finally posted. Anyways, I'm getting a very different read from this list than you apparently did:

1. Only three on the list were known to have served under House Tudor, but only under queens (and one of them is noted as having been a court fool, which was apparently distinct from being a jester in that setting).
2. Two on the list were known to have served Mary, Queen of Scots (House Stuart).
3. One was a court dwarf (also distinct from a jester), and served under a Spanish queen/regent (House Habsburg) until her position was abolished by a king of House Bourbon.
4. One was a French jester, but little appears to be known about her beyond that she performed at one single function.
5. One served under the courts (and not any specific individual) of three French kings, and it's noted that there were several others, but only one is listed by name, and she's not included in the index.
6. And the last one was employed by a Spanish king, solely on the basis of a physical condition that the king found amusing.

I love this minifigure!!

There were jester women, but they were silenced.