Medieval English comedy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hordis, Sandra M., Hardwick, Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2007]
Series:Profane arts of the Middle Ages.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Humour and the comic in Anglo-Saxon England / Martha Bayless
  • Superior incongruity : derisive and sympathetic comedy in Middle English drama and homiletic exempla / Christopher Crane
  • Making light of devotion : the pilgrimage window in York Minster / Paul Hardwick
  • Comic pleasures : Chaucer and popular romance / Dana M. Symons
  • Funny money : puns and currency in the Shipman's tale / Christian Sheridan
  • Joan's drolleries : humour in the margins of Fitzwilliam MS 242 / Laurel Broughton
  • Gender anxiety and dialogic laughter in Malory's Morte darthur / Sandra M. Hordis
  • Getting even : social control and uneasy laughter in The play of the sacrament / Mariamne Ara Krummel
  • From snickers to laughter : believable comedy in Chaucer's Miller's tale / Peter G. Beidler
  • Musical comedy in the medieval choir : England / Elaine C. Block with Frédéric Billiet.