Indecent exposure gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature Gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature Sidhu, Nicole Nolan creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. pau 2016 2016 monographic eng print viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Note on the Fabliaux -- Introduction. Obscenity in medieval culture and literature -- part I. Fourteen-century pioneers -- 1. Comedy and critique : obscenity and Langland's reproof of established powers in Piers Plowman -- 2. Chaucer's poetics of the obscene : classical narrative and fabliau politics in fragment one of the Canterbury tales and The legend of good women -- Part II. Fifteenth-century heirs -- 3. The henpecked subject : misogyny, poetry, and masculine community in the writing of John Lydgate -- 4. "Ryth Wikked" : Christian ethics and the unruly holy woman in the Book of Margery Kempe -- 5. Women's work, companionate marriage, and mass death in the biblical drama -- Conclusion. Lessons of the medieval obscene. Nicole Nolan Sidhu. Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism Sex in literature Politics in literature Obscene words in literature English literature Middle English Politics in literature Sex in literature Words, Obscene, in literature 1100 - 1500 fast PR149.S5 S53 2016 Middle Ages series 081224804X 9780812248043 YDXCP 151030 20170927135548.0 in00003783912 eng