As You Like It and Feste in Twelfth Night, a common Shakespearean comic character.
One character with this profession includes the Reply Churlish and the Lie Circumstantial in his explanation of how he almost quarreled on the "seventh cause". One character with this profession ends a play by singing a song with the refrain "For the rain, it raineth every day". Another of these characters says he would beat a character he calls "nuncle" for becoming old before being wise. One of these poses as Sir Thopas as part of a prank played on Malvolio. Another one of these accompanies Celia and Rosalind into Arden Forest. One of these employed by King Lear joins him in his exile, and mysteriously disappears from the play after Act 3, Scene 6. For 10 points, name this occupation of Touchstone in As You Like It and Feste in Twelfth Night, a common Shakespearean comic character.
One character with this profession includes the Reply Churlish and the Lie Circumstantial in his explanation of how he almost quarreled on the "seventh cause".
Shakespearean fools [also accept clowns, court jesters, harlequins and other similar answers]