Comedy, the Canon, and Medieval Women's Wit.

Author / Editor
Niebrzydowski, Sue.

Title
Comedy, the Canon, and Medieval Women's Wit.

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 325-36.

Description
Explores evidence of medieval women's humor, drawing examples from Margaret Mautby Paston and Margery Kempe, preceded by contemplation of why such humor is understudied. Includes comments on Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Alisoun of MilT, and May of MerT as instances where "Laughter, here specifically laughing 'at,' is a mainstay of medieval (and later) misogyny."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Miller and His Tale
Wife of Bath and her Tale
Merchant and His Tale