Laughable Men: Comedy and Masculinity from Chaucer to Shakespeare
- Author / Editor
- Walker, Greg.
Laughable Men: Comedy and Masculinity from Chaucer to Shakespeare
- Published
- Roberta Mullini, introd. Tudor Theatre: For Laughs? Puzzling Laughter in Plays of the Tudor Age/Tudor Théâtre: Pour Rire? Rires et Problèmes dans le Théâtre des Tudor (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 1-20.
- Description
- According to Walker, the three males in MilT anticipate familiar types of masculine "fool" in English dramatic tradition: John as cuckolded senex amans, Nicholas as the punished "Priapic fool," and Absolon as the "squeamish, infantalised male." Walker identifies similar figures in later traditions of drama, film, and television.
- Contributor
- Mullini, Roberta, intro.
- Alternative Title
- Tudor Theatre: For Laughs? Puzzling Laughter in Plays of the Tudor Age/Tudor Théâtre: Pour Rire? Rires et Problèmes dans le Théâtre des Tudor.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.