Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: The humorous poetry of late medieval Scotland is diverse in genre, including among its forms the drinking song, farce, parody, burlesque, elrich fantasy, and satiric invective.Some examples, closely related to other popular entertainments of the time, lack technical subtlety, making use of stereotypes and crude plots.Others however are works of imaginative and technical skill, with jesting allusion to classical precedents.Although many forms, especially parody, draw upon Continental examples, the Scottish examples across all genres are also enriched and made distinctive by their great verbal and situational invention.
Author: Janet Hadley Williams
Institution: Australian National University
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1820156857