Serious Play: Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto
(Part of the Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures Series)
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Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, and disturbing fantasy, an achievement hailed as...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231152108
ISBN13:9780231152105
Release Date:September 2010
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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