Mirth making : the rhetorical discourse on jesting in early modern England
Chris Holcomb (Author)
This work examines the complex and often contradictory ways in which writers of rhetoric and courtesy manuals during the English Renaissance counselled their readers on the powers and hazards of jesting.
Print Book, English, 2001
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.
9781570033971, 1570033978
45582687
Introduction
Jesting situations
The topoi, or "places," of jesting: official and unofficial territories
Point out something unseemly in no unseemly manner: orators, courtiers, and buffoons
Audience: the many-headed monster