Comic medievalism : laughing at the Middle Ages / Louise D'Arcens.

• I. The set up -- Introduction: Laughing at, with and in the Middle Ages -- The Cervantean paradigm: comedy, madness and meta-medievalism in Don Quixote -- II. Oldies but goodies: comic recovery -- Scraping the rust from the joking bard: Chaucer in the age of wit -- Medievalist farce as anti-totalitarian weapon: Dario Fo as modern Giullare -- III. Hit and myth: performing and parodying medievalism -- 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 -- IV. That's edutainment: comedy and history -- 'The past is a difficult 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.

Ämnesord

Medeltiden  (sao)

Humor  (sao)

Litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Humor in literature.  (LCSH)

Literature, Medieval  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Wit and humor  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PN682.H76 (LCC)

809/.02 (DDC)