Comic Medievalism
Laughing at the Middle Ages
1st Edition
Published on 17. July 2014
219 pages
978-1-78204-375-1 (ISBN)
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First full-length critical study of humour in medievalism.
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Content
Introduction: Laughing at, with, and in the Middle Ages
The Cervantean Paradigm: Comedy, Madness, and Meta-medievalism in Don Quixote
Scraping the Rust from the Joking Bard: Chaucer in the Age of Wit
Medievalist Farce as Anti-totalitarian Weapon: Dario Fo as Modern Guillare
Pre-modern Camp and Faerie Legshows: Travestying the Middle Ages on the Nineteenth-Century Stage
Up the Middle Ages: Performing Tradition in Comic Medievalist Cinema
'The past is a different and fairly disgusting country': The Middle Ages in recent British 'jocumentary'
Smelling the Past: Medieval Heritage Tourism and the Phenomenology of Ironic Nostalgia
Afterword: Laughing into the Future
Bibliography
The Cervantean Paradigm: Comedy, Madness, and Meta-medievalism in Don Quixote
Scraping the Rust from the Joking Bard: Chaucer in the Age of Wit
Medievalist Farce as Anti-totalitarian Weapon: Dario Fo as Modern Guillare
Pre-modern Camp and Faerie Legshows: Travestying the Middle Ages on the Nineteenth-Century Stage
Up the Middle Ages: Performing Tradition in Comic Medievalist Cinema
'The past is a different and fairly disgusting country': The Middle Ages in recent British 'jocumentary'
Smelling the Past: Medieval Heritage Tourism and the Phenomenology of Ironic Nostalgia
Afterword: Laughing into the Future
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