Feminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the Middle Ages.
- Author / Editor
- Perfetti, Lisa.
Feminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the Middle Ages.
- Published
- Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, and Sean Zwagerman, eds. Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice (Lanham: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013), pp. 41-53.
- Description
- Asks to what extent CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron" advocate "women's equality," exploring female laughter in these works, and focusing on Boccaccio's Pampinea and on the Wife of Bath as a "comic performer who has an intent to play."
- Contributor
- Dickinson, Peter, ed.
Higgins, Anne, ed.
St. Pierre, Paul, ed.
Solomon, Diana, ed.
Zwagerman, Sean, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations