Research Catalog

Title

Medieval English comedy / edited by Sandra M. Hordis & Paul Hardwick.

Publication

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hordis, Sandra M.
• Hardwick, Paul

Description

230 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Profane arts of the Middle Ages

Uniform Title

Profane arts of the Middle Ages (Turnhout, Belgium)

Subject

• Geschichte
• To 1500
• Geschichte
• 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

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9782503524276
• 2503524273

LCCN

^^2008448812

OCLC

• 144221422
• SCSB-11921619

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library