Comic Medievalism: Laughing at the Middle Ages

Louise D'Arcens

Published by Boydell and Brewer 2014

Comic Medievalism

Laughing at the Middle Ages

Louise D'Arcens

Volume 4 in the series Medievalism

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782043751

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About this book

First full-length critical study of humour in medievalism.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
I The Set Up
Introduction: Laughing at, with and in the Middle Ages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 The Cervantean Paradigm: Comedy, Madness and Meta-Medievalism in Don Quixote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
II Oldies But Goodies: Comic Recovery
2 Scraping the Rust from the Joking Bard: Chaucer in the Age of Wit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3 Medievalist Farce as Anti-Totalitarian Weapon: Dario Fo as Modern Giullare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
III Hit and Myth: Performing and Parodying Medievalism
4 Pre-Modern Camp and Faerie Legshows: Travestying the Middle Ages on the Nineteenth-Century Stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5 Up the Middle Ages: Performing Tradition in Comic Medievalist Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
IV That’s Edutainment: Comedy and History
6 ‘The Past is a Different and Fairly Disgusting Country’: The Middle Ages 139 in Recent British ‘Jocumentary’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
7 Smelling the Past: Medieval Heritage Tourism and the Phenomenology of Ironic Nostalgia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Afterword: Laughing into the Future Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Boydell and Brewer
Original publisher: D.S.Brewer
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 219
Illustrations
- Other: 6 b/w illus.
Keywords: Medievalism; Medieval literature; Middle Ages; Medieval history; Comedy; Literature; Cultural studies; Medieval comedy; Comic texts; Comic medievalism; Chaucer; Don Quixote; Victorian Theatre; Monty Python; Heritage Tourism; Viking; Satire; Parody; Farce

eBook

Published: July 17, 2014
ISBN: 9781782043751