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T1 Humour in medieval English literature: Chaucer and the Mystery Plays
A1 Ibáñez Villahoz, Asier
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Chaucer, Middle Ages, Mystery Plays, humour, carnival subversion, Canterbury Tales
K1 Edad Media, Misterios, humor, inversión carnavalesca, cuentos
AB The present dissertation displays an analysis of the use of humour in different textsfrom the literature from the Middle Ages in England. On the one hand, The CanterburyTales, which is considered to be the most important work written in English before theRenaissance; on the other hand, the Mystery Plays, a type of medieval drama, which startedto be developed in England during the medieval period. Both Chaucer and the authors ofthese dramatic texts used humour as a way of criticism on the coeval society. Therefore, thepurpose of this dissertation will be to analyse the use of humour in the Middle Ages tryingto establish a comparison between both works.
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33297
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33297
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-abr-2024