Enid Welsford spent most of her academic career at Cambridge studying the fool as a social and literary figure. Her 1935 book The Fool: His Social and Literary History remains the foundational taxonomy — buffoons, court jesters, sacred madmen, and the rest, traced across centuries of European culture.
I've built a short quiz from that taxonomy. Eight questions. It will tell you which kind of fool you are.
The result is not a flattery. Welsford's categories are historical, not therapeutic. Some of them are not comfortable to land in.
Welsford herself is not available for appeal.
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