Marotte
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A marotte is a prop stick or sceptre with a carved head on it.<ref>Cartwright, Kent. Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment. United Kingdom, OUP Oxford, 2021. 39.</ref> Jesters usually used a marotte. The word is borrowed from the French, where it signifies either a fool's (literal) "bauble" or a fad.
Typically carried by a jester or Arlecchino, the miniature head often reflects the costume of the jester who carries it. Modern marottes typically have music boxes or other machinery built into the head. Older marottes may utilize swivel heads with bells.
In popular cultureEdit
In Verdi's opera Rigoletto, the singer of the title role, a jester, carries a marotte, which often has on it the faces of comedy and tragedy.
In the children's TV series Rentaghost, the ghostly jester Timothy Claypole has a marotte referred to as "Tiny Timothy".
GalleryEdit
- Marotte - Niederwindemer Schindlejokel.jpg
Niederwindemer Schindlejokel
- Marotte.jpg
Marotte of Deutsch
- Marotte 2.jpg
Before 1848
- Marotte - Welschkorngeister - Denzlingen.jpg
Welschkorngeister - Denzlingen
- Marotte - Hölle-Leue - Freiburg-Rieselfeld.jpg
Hölle-Leue - Freiburg-Rieselfeld
- Marotte - Burgnarren - Freiburg-Zähringen.jpg
Burgnarren - Freiburg-Zähringen
- Marotte Musée du jouet de Moirans-en-Montagne 19072017 1.jpg
Musée du jouet de Moirans-en-Montagne
- Rocca di Angera - Museo della Bambola Marotte.jpg
Rocca di Angera - Museo della Bambola
- Marotte - détail du dessin Le pas du Danube bleu. Caricature de Valio. Le Journal amusant 10 mars 1877.jpg
détail du dessin Le pas du Danube bleu. Caricature de Valio. Le Journal amusant 10 mars 1877
- Grandville - A chaque fou plaît sa marotte.jpg
Grandville - A chaque fou plaît sa marotte
- Émile Moreau-Roi et Paysan-10.jpg
Émile Moreau-Roi et Paysan
- Carlègle - Les Linottes page 0160.jpg
Carlègle - Les Linottes
- Triboulet en prière.png
Triboulet en prière
- Chambers 1908 Bauble.png
Chambers 1908 Bauble
- Playing Cards 7547.JPG
Playing Cards
- VSAN TT 2014 So055.jpg
VSAN TT 2014
- VSAN Wgt 2015 568 Schalknarr.jpg
VSAN Wgt 2015 568 Schalknarr
- Heinrich Vogtherr d. J. Schalksnarr.JPG
A jester shown with a marotte in a 1540 woodcut by Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger
- Pirata marioneta lou.jpg
Pirata marioneta lou
- Kind mit Maske und Narrenzepter 19Jh.jpg
Kind mit Maske und Narrenzepter 19Jh
- Three Fools of Carnival.jpg
Three Fools of Carnival
- Zwei Szepter - Johli und Feuerteufel.JPG
Zwei Szepter - Johli und Feuerteufel
- Seeräuber Titisee (20.01.2019 - 2) - Captain.jpg
Seeräuber Titisee
- Philippe Mercier Jeune garçon en costume de folie.jpg
Philippe Mercier Jeune garçon en costume de folie
- Narrenzunft Nordrach (03.02.2019) - Zunftmeister.jpg
Narrenzunft Nordrach - Zunftmeister
- Renaissance fair - people 71.JPG
Renaissance fair
- Jester statue, Stratford-upon-Avon - DSC08915.JPG
The Jester Statue on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
- Jester's bauble MET 29534.jpg
Jester's bauble
- Frederick Locker (Waddy, 1872).jpg
Frederick Locker (Waddy, 1872)
- When Depew goes to the Senate by Homer Davenport (cropped).jpg
When Depew goes to the Senate by Homer Davenport (cropped)
- Quentin Massys 030.jpg
Quentin Massys
- Brooklyn Museum - For What Was I Created? - William Holbrook Beard - overall.jpg
Brooklyn Museum - For What Was I Created? - William Holbrook Beard - overall
- Jan Pietersz. Saenredam - The Fool - Google Art Project.jpg
Jan Pietersz. Saenredam - The Fool
- A Court Fool of the 15th Century color.jpg
A Court Fool of the 15th Century
- Jacquemart de Hesdin 001.jpg
Jacquemart de Hesdin
- Hieronymus Bosch 011.jpg
Hieronymus Bosch
- Bajazz mit der Laterne von der Mainzer Künstlerin Inge Blum, eine Symbolfigur des Mainzer Karnevals - panoramio.jpg
Bajazz mit der Laterne von der Mainzer Künstlerin Inge Blum, eine Symbolfigur des Mainzer Karnevals - panoramio