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Re: A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says

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Post by dsr_ » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 7:47 PM UTC

greenhearth wrote: post #6

This is no surprise. There's a lot of Monty Python style in Shakespeare, and he was definitely influenced by earlier sources, such as medieval morality plays, etc.

Perhaps we should say that Monty Python draws on Shakespearean comedy, given the relative times and the fact that we know that most, if not all of the Pythons studied Shxpr.

Re: A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says

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Post by drewcoo » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 7:49 PM UTC

In medieval England people joked about killer rabbits. Must be a direct ancestor of Monty Python's rabbit - connection!

In medieval England there was a sketch about "Robin Hood, jousting bears, and partying pigs" yet there's no mention of Walt Disney.

I'd say it's a load of hogwash but I'm sure somewhere Becky Ferreira has written about how medieval Britons used to bathe their swine.

Re: A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says

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Post by nemo » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 7:52 PM UTC

andrewxdiamond wrote: post #3

heywhatupboys wrote: post #2

IN BRITAIN! I think some of the posts on here are very anglo-centric. I like that HN is a place that serves no one particlar nation or people.

As a noob asking from a place of curiosity, does “Medieval” mean anything outside of the Europe sphere of influence? Medieval evokes a certain imagery in my mind, rather than a time period. It feels weird and Eurocentric to refer to Asian countries in ~1200 as “Medieval” for example.

"Medieval" can sometimes be applied to places like China or India, but it's not used that way by historians. In general historians don't use the terms "Medieval" or "Dark Ages" much anymore, and if they do it's with qualifiers. For Europe "Post-Classical," "Early Middle Ages" or "Late Antiquity" are more often used refer to the earlier Middle Ages.

Re: A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says

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Post by PcChip » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 8:20 PM UTC

is there a link to the actual manuscript?

Re: A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says

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Post by a_shoeboy » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 8:28 PM UTC

PcChip wrote: post #14

is there a link to the actual manuscript?

Here's the Hunting of the Hare (starts on the page marked 113 and it's in Middle English, but there's a glossary after): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236869902_'The_Hunt...