Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature.(Review)

Medium Aevum | March 22, 2001 | Copyright

Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature, ed. Jonathan Wilcox (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). 162 pp. ISBN 0-85991-576-X. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. After the editor's introduction, John D. Niles writes on `Byrhtnoth's laughter and the poetics of gesture'; T. A. Shippey, `"Grim wordplay": folly and wisdom in Anglo-Saxon humour'; Raymond P. Tripp, Jr, `Humor, wordplay, and semantic resonance in Beowulf'; E. L. Risden, `Heroic ...

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