These comedians had “the instinct to self-ironize, to use crude bodily humor, to use slapstick and situational comedy, and the willingness to make the audience the butt of the joke.” Yet if Wade’s new ...

Despite starring in this underrated medieval adventure movie, Paul Bettany can't rewatch it for a heartbreaking reason.

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Netflix's The Decameron bears little resemblance to Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century classic with which it shares a name. While the miniseries still revolves around a group of Italian nobles who have ...

James Wade is an associate professor of English at the University of Cambridge (University of Cambridge). (CN) — If you take Richard Heege at his word, then the reason so few minstrel tales survived ...

A new study about a medieval tome includes the comedy script of an unnamed traveling entertainer, known as a minstrel, and provides a direct glimpse into the oral tradition of English minstrel acts.

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Let's hear a snippet from a 15th-century comedy act. JAMES WADE: If thou have a great black bowl in thy hand and it be full of good ale and thou leave anything therein, thou puttest thy soul into ...