Medieval English comedy
By: edited by Sandra M. Hordis & Paul Hardwick.
Contributors: Hordis, Sandra M.; Hardwick, Paul.
Series: Profane arts of the Middle Ages
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9782503524276
Subjects: English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.; English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Themes, motives.; Humor in literature.; Art, Medieval -- England -- Themes, motives.; Wit and humor in art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Humour and the comic in Anglo-Saxon England / Martha Bayless; title: Superior incongruity : derisive and sympathetic comedy in Middle English drama and homiletic exempla / Christopher Crane; title: Making light of devotion : the pilgrimage window in York Minster / Paul Hardwick; title: Comic pleasures : Chaucer and popular romance / Dana M. Symons; title: Funny money : puns and currency in the Shipman's tale / Christian Sheridan; title: Joan's drolleries : humour in the margins of Fitzwilliam MS 242 / Laurel Broughton; title: Gender anxiety and dialogic laughter in Malory's Morte darthur / Sandra M. Hordis; title: Getting even : social control and uneasy laughter in The play of the sacrament / Mariamne Ara Krummel; title: From snickers to laughter : believable comedy in Chaucer's Miller's tale / Peter G. Beidler; title: Musical comedy in the medieval choir : England / Elaine C. Block with Frédéric Billiet.