Keith Busby & Roger Dalrymple 
Arthurian Literature XIX 
Comedy in Arthurian Literature

The texts analyzed underline the wide dissemination of the Arthurian story in medieval and post-medieval Europe, from Scotland to Italy, while the various analyses of the manifestations of comedy refute the notion of romance as ahumourless genre. Indeed, the comic treatment of conventional themes and motifs appears to be not only characteristic of later romance but an essential element of the genre from its beginnings and from its earliest development. Authors of Arthurian romance, from Chrétien de Troyes to Malory, writing in French, Italian, Middle Dutch, and Middle English, and the creators of an Irish prose-tale, all question the fundamental assumptions of romance and romancevalues through the medium of comedy. The theme of comedy in Arthurian romance has been developed from the orignal session at the Arthurian Congress in Toulouse. Contributors: ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, FRANK BRANDSMA, CHRISTINE FERLAMPIN-ACHER, LINDA GOWANS, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, MARGOLEIN HOGENBIRK, NORRIS J. LACY, MARILYN LAWRENCE, BENEDICTE MILLAND-BOVE, PETER S. NOBLE, KAREN PRATT, ANGELICA RIEGER, ELIZABETH S. SKLAR, FRANCESCO ZAMBON.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Comedy and Tragedy in Some Arthurian Recognition Scenes – Elizabeth Archibald

Merveilleux et comique dans les romans arthuriens français (XIIe-Xve siècles) – Christine Ferlampin-Acher

La bande dessinée virtuelle du lion d’Yvain. Sur le sens de l’humour de Chrétien de Troyes – Angelica Rieger

Convention, Comedy and the Form of
La Vengeance Raguidel – Norris J. Lacy

Le Comique dans
Les Merveilles de Rigomer et Hunbaut – Peter S Noble

Humour in the
Roman de Silence – Karen Pratt

La pratique de la ‚disconvenance‘ comique dans le
Lancelot en prose: les mésaventures amoureuses de Guerrehet – Benedicte Milland-Bove

Lancelot part 3 – Frank Brandsma

Comic Functions of the Parrot as Minstrel in
Le Chevalier du Papegau – Marilyn Lawrence

Dinadan en Italie – Francesco Zambon

A Comical Villain. Artur’s seneschal in a section of the Middle Dutch
Lancelot Compilation – Marjolein Hogenbirk

Malory and the English Comic Tradition – Donald L Hoffman

‚Laughyng and Smylyng‘: Comic Modalities in Malory’s
Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake – Elizabeth S Sklar

The
Eachtra an Amadáin Mhóir as a Response to the
Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes – L M Gowans

Über den Autor

ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert’s Society.