Literary Laughter: Being a Treasury of Comic Writings by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Twain, and Dickens
- Author / Editor
- Engel, Elliot.
Literary Laughter: Being a Treasury of Comic Writings by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Twain, and Dickens
- Published
- [Raleigh, N.C.]: Barefoot Press, 1991.
- Physical Description
- iv, 91 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- An anthology of comic selections, including (pp. 9-17) the Nevill Coghill translation the GP description of the Wife of Bath and selections from WBP, with a brief introduction. The volume includes a commentary on literary humor, illustrations by Quinn Hawkesworth, and culinary recipes from the "literary time period" of each of the four authors, including "Chaucer's Madrigal Dinner" (pp. 59-66).
- Contributor
- Coghill, Nevill, trans.
- Hawkesworth, Quinn, illus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale