This episode we go old school, literally. We are joined by comic Mabel Slattery
[https://twitter.com/mabelwatches] to discuss medieval comedy and Mikhail
Bakhtin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakhtin]and his Carnival Theory
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivalesque], we get into some interesting
ideas like Humour Theory [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_humor],
Robin Hood, Sumptuary Laws [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law],
Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries
[https://books.google.ie/books/about/Secular_Lyrics_of_the_XIVth_and_XVth_Cen.html?id=bx8tAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y],
Richard Hill Commonplace Book, Chaucer’s Knight Tale
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knight%27s_Tale] and just having a bit of
craic!
And here is a snip from the poem Mabel quoted, is it an medieval MC? you decide!
Snatches of Oral Songs [https://books.openedition.org/obp/8946?lang=en]
Sir, what say ye with your fat face?
Me thynkith ye shuld bere a very good bace.
To a pot of good ale or ipocras,
Truly as I you say.
Hold up your hede,
Ye loke lyke lede,
Ye wast myche
Evermore from day to day.
Bon jowre …
And some Monty Python
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