Medieval Comic Relief: Cannibal Cow, Duck's Deck and Carry on Joan of Arc.
- Author / Editor
- Knight, Stephen.
Medieval Comic Relief: Cannibal Cow, Duck's Deck and Carry on Joan of Arc.
- Published
- Postmedieval 5 (2014): 154-68.
- Description
- Treats three examples of eighteenth-century comic medievalism as the "male adolescence of the Enlightenment": Henry Fielding's presentation of Arthurian material as "farcically lascivious discourse" in "Tom Thumb," the "pre-modern prurience" of Voltaire's "La Pucelle d'Orleans," and Alexander Pope's sexualized adaptations of WBP and MerT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Merchant and His Tale