Description: Contents: Martha Bayless, Merriment and Entertainment in Anglo-Saxon England: What is the Evidence?; Christopher Crane, Taking Laughter Seriously: The Rhetoric of Humor in Middle English Drama, Sermon Exempla and Spiritual Instruction; Paul Hardwick, Making Light of Devotion: The Pilgrimage Window at York Minster; Dana Symons, Comic Pleasures: Chaucer and Popular Romance; Christian Sheridan, Funny Money: Puns and Currency in the Shipmans Tale; Laurel Broughton, From Buttfaces to Turd Bowling: Physical Humor in the Margins; Sandra M. Hordis, Gender and Dialogic Laughter in Malorys Morte Darthur; Miriamne Ara Krummel, Getting Even: Uneasy Laughter in The Play of the Sacrament; Peter G. Beidler, Realistic Stage Comedy in Chaucers Millers Tale; Elaine C. Block, Fooling Apes and Aping Fools on Misericord Carvings.
Brief description: Table of contents: Martha Bayless, 'Merriment and Entertainment in Anglo-Saxon England: What is the Evidence?'; Christopher Crane, 'Taking Laughter Seriously: The Rhetoric of Humor in Middle English Drama, Sermon Exempla and Spiritual Instruction'; Paul Hardwick, 'Making Light of Devotion: The Pilgrimage Window at York Minster'; Dana Symons, 'Comic Pleasures: Chaucer and Popular Romance'; Christian Sheridan, 'Funny Money: Puns and Currency in the Shipman's Tale'; Laurel Broughton, 'From Buttfaces to Turd Bowling: Physical Humor in the Margins'; Sandra M. Hordis, 'Gender and Dialogic Laughter in Malory's Morte Darthur'; Miriamne Ara Krummel, 'Getting Even: Uneasy Laughter in The Play of the Sacrament'; Peter G. Beidler, 'Realistic Stage Comedy in Chaucer's Miller's Tale'; Elaine C. Block, 'Fooling Apes and Aping Fools on Misericord Carvings'