There is no court fool character in Romeo and Juliet. The play features characters like Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, and Friar Laurence, but the role of a court fool is not present in this Shakespearean tragedy.
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Friar Lawrence says this line in Act 5, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet. He is referring to Romeo expressing his grief over Juliet's death and stating that he would rather be considered a fool if he were "married" to Juliet's grave (forever mourning her).
In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, just after Romeo kills Tybalt, Romeo exclaims, "O, I am fortune's fool!" (3.1.136). He means that "fortune" (chance, bad luck) has played him for a fool by leading him to kill the cousin of his new wife, Juliet.
O, I am Fortune's Fool!
"Oh I am fortunes fool!"
O, I am Fortune's Fool.
A natural was a fool or a person of limited intelligence.
Nobody did. The quotation "I would the fool were married to her grave" is from the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
Romeo said that he was fortunes fool after he killed Tybalt.
l am Fortune's Fool.
But she does, just not onstage. The nurse would not be able to take her message to Romeo in Act II Scene 4, nor have any reason to warn Romeo not to lead Juliet into a "fool's paradise" or "deal double" with her if she didn't know how Juliet cared for Romeo. Nor would she tease Juliet in Scene 5 by withholding Romeo's plan to marry her if she didn't know how desperately Juliet was waiting to hear just this news.
Romeo and Juliet (1935), Romeo & Juliet (1968) and Romeo+Juliet (1996).