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Women & Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature......Page 4
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Contents......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Woman’s Laughing Body......Page 19
The Multivalent Figure of the “Woman on Top”......Page 27
Reading Women’s Laughter: The Comic Transaction......Page 33
Women Laughing, Men Writing......Page 35
Who’s Laughing and Why? The Medieval Audience......Page 37
1. “Myn entente nys but for to pleye” The Game of Antifeminism and the Wife of Bath’s Invitation to Laughter......Page 44
Antifeminism as Game......Page 48
The Wife of Bath’s Mimicry: Deflating Masculine Pretensions......Page 52
Wit and Women’s Wisdom: Pragmatic Play......Page 59
Who Gets the Last Laugh? The Wife of Bath’s Tale......Page 65
2. “Such tales were not to be told among ladies” Women’s Wit and the Problem of Modesty in Boccaccio’s Decameron......Page 78
Boccaccio and His Women Readers: Ladies’ Man......Page 79
When Modesty and Laughter Collide......Page 83
Women’s Wit and Women’s Wiles......Page 96
Verbal Jousting and the Game of Love......Page 107
3. “A bowrd about bed” Women’s Community of Laughter and the Woes of Marriage in Dunbar’s The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo......Page 114
Women’s Private Laughter and the Male Eavesdropper......Page 115
Women’s Counternarrative: Mockery as Emasculation......Page 121
Laughter as Relief for the Woes of (Mis)Marriage......Page 130
When Men Imagine Women Laughing......Page 137
4. “With themshe had her playful game ”The Performance of Gender and Genre in Ulrich von Lichtenstein’s Frauendienst......Page 141
The Mocking Lady and a Woman’s “No”......Page 145
What Does It Mean to Serve a Lady?......Page 157
Ulrich’s Narrative Games: Lady’s Man, Fool, “Queen”......Page 167
5. “My wife will be mistress” The Loquacious Farce Wife and Laughter in the House......Page 183
Women in Medieval Theater: On Stage and Off......Page 187
Women’s Wagging Tongue and the Farce Wife’s Challenge......Page 190
Domestic Authority: Cracks in the Household Walls......Page 199
Women’s Work and Women’s Worth......Page 205
On the Way to the Tavern......Page 213
6. “No, this is not its name” Anatomy of the Joke Women Teach Men in the Thousand and One Nights......Page 218
Manuscript Traditions and Audiences for the Nights......Page 222
Great Is Woman’s Cunning: Shahrazad and the Ambivalence of Female Eloquence......Page 224
Vision, Veiling, and Fitna......Page 233
Lewd/Ludic Lessons......Page 237
Female Community and the Male Interloper’s Offering......Page 243
Laughing Bodies: Aisha Kandisha and the Wife of Bath......Page 249
Conclusion......Page 254
APPENDIXES......Page 264
APPENDIX A: Arabic Transliterations......Page 266
APPENDIX B: Arabic Text for Chapter 6......Page 268
Editions and Translations of Classical and Medieval Sources......Page 270
Criticism and History......Page 275
Index......Page 290