Ship of Fools
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The ship of fools is an old allegory that has long been used in Western culture in literature and paintings. With a sense of self-criticism, it describes the world and its human inhabitants as a vessel whose deranged passengers neither know nor care where they are going. Ships of fools featured as wagons in medieval Carnival Parades.
Ship of Fools may also refer to:
In art:
- The Ship of Fools, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch
- Ship of Fools (Narrenschiff), a 1494 satire by Sebastian Brant
- Ship of Fools, a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter
- Ship of Fools, a 1965 motion picture, based on the novel
- La nave de los locos(1984), a 1984 novel, by Cristina Peri Rossi, Uruguayan writer
- Ship of Fools, a 1999 short story by Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber
- Ship of Fools, a 2001 award-winning science fiction novel by Richard Paul Russo
- The Ship of Fools, a 2001 novel by Gregory Norminton
In music: Ship of fools is frequently used in popular music. Acts who have recorded songs titled "Ship of Fools" include:
- Alphaville
- Bob Seger
- Dr. Strangely Strange
- Erasure
- John Cale
- Robert Plant
- Scorpions
- Secret Chiefs 3
- Soul Asylum
- The Doors
- The Grateful Dead
- Tuxedomoon
- Van der Graaf Generator
- World Party
- Yuki Kajiura (for the Tsubasa Chronicle Soundtrack)
It is also the title of an album by John Renbourn. A now-defunct Yorkshire band were actually named Ship of Fools.
In other contexts:
- Ship of Fools, a popular UK-based Christian website
- Ship of Fools, an apocryphal medieval European method of dealing with mental illness
- The Ship of Fools, an improv comedy troupe made up of students from Purdue University
- The Golgafrinchan B Ark in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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