Medieval roots of British comedy

A unique record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/bawdy-b...
Raucous texts - mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences to get drunk; and shocking them with slapstick - shed new light on Britain’s famous sense of humour, and the role played by minstrels in medieval society.
The texts contain the earliest recorded use of ‘red herring’ in English, extremely rare forms of medieval literature, as well as a killer rabbit worthy of Monty Python. The discovery changes the way we should think about English comic culture between Chaucer and Shakespeare.

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The old English was not easy to follow. I wish that video had provided some translation like in form of sub titles for it.

[@breezey1643]

Very interesting, thank you for sharing, just read an article about Richard Heege !

[@nuruljannah6850]

I wish i can join cambridge uni with scholarship soon aameen=)

[@josea.r.avelino181]

so this is some kind of metalinguistic irony: a video about commedy intentionally made in the most boring way possible, very funny.

[@davidnnaji4884]

Between the Roman and Nordic empire who colonised the British?

[@eritain]

The Angles and the Saxons

[@Greg_M1]

So you couldn't read that main passage in modern English? Instead most watching this will have no idea what the passages says. No common sense here. Fail.