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Frontcover 1 Contents 8 Illustrations 9 Acknowledgements 10 I The Set Up 12 Introduction: Laughing at, with and in the Middle Ages 14 1 The Cervantean Paradigm: Comedy, Madness and Meta-Medievalism in Don Quixote 34 II Oldies But Goodies: Comic Recovery 52 2 Scraping the Rust from the Joking Bard: Chaucer in the Age of Wit 54 3 Medievalist Farce as Anti-Totalitarian Weapon: Dario Fo as Modern Giullare 79 III Hit and Myth: Performing and Parodying Medievalism 100 4 Pre-Modern Camp and Faerie Legshows: Travestying the Middle Ages on the Nineteenth-Century Stage 102 5 Up the Middle Ages: Performing Tradition in Comic Medievalist Cinema 123 IV That’s Edutainment: Comedy and History 148 6 ‘The Past is a Different and Fairly Disgusting Country’: The Middle Ages in Recent British‘ Jocumentary 150 7 Smelling the Past: Medieval Heritage Tourism and the Phenomenology of Ironic Nostalgia 172 Afterword: Laughing into the Future 192 Bibliography 196 Index 212 Backcover 222

Author

Louise D'Arcens

Language

EN