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Comedy Reference library
Yi-Hsin Hsu
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...sections of the society. In these three plays, gynecocracy subverts gender stereotypes, criticizes contemporary politics, and voices a suppressed outcry for peace, heterogeneity, and equality. The subversive potential of comedy is particularly foregrounded when explored in the context of the Feast of Fools and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of carnival and the carnivalesque. In Rabelais and His World , Bakhtin traces the origin of the carnivalesque to the miracle and morality plays of the Middle Ages. 51 The medieval Feast of Fools is an annual “vent” for the...
Song Reference library
Stephanie Burt and Jenn Lewin
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...works in classical antiquity. Feast days in epic poems may include a request that a court musician perform songs, which mark a meal’s end. These episodes often mention the types of songs sung, their content, and their effects on an audience; sometimes the whole audience reacts the same way. Moments in which songs are performed thereby turn into scenes of meta-commentary: songs within a larger narrative may take on great significance, creating social cohesion or exacerbating differences in character. In the first book of Virgil’s Aeneid , for example, when...
Fool Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes. All Fools’ Day 1 April. See april fool . April Fool See under april . As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks See under as . Court fools See under court . Feast of Fools, The See under feast . Flannelled fools See under flannel . Gooseberry fool See under gooseberry . Paradise of fools, The See under paradise . Play the fool, To See under play . Ship of fools, The See under ship . Tomfool See under tom . Wisest fool in Christendom, The See under wise...
Innocent, An Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...An An idiot or born fool was formerly so called. As innocent as a lamb See under as . Feast of the Holy Innocents, The See holy innocents . Holy Innocents See under holy . Massacre of the Innocents, The See under massacre . Ring of Innocent, The See under ring...
Feast Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... Day (25 December). Others are the Naming of Jesus, formerly known as the Circumcision (1 January), epiphany (6 January), all hallows day (1 November), the various Apostles’ days and the anniversaries of martyrs and saints. The movable feasts are those that depend on easter Day. Also among them are the Sundays after the Epiphany, septuagesima sunday , the Sundays of lent , Rogation Sunday, ascension day , Pentecost or whitsunday , trinity sunday and the Sundays after Trinity. Feast of Fools, The A kind of clerical saturnalia , popular in the...
Ass Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...See also ass-eared . Ass with two panniers, An A man out walking with a lady on each arm. The expression is from the French faire le panier à deux anses (‘to make a basket with two handles’). Balaam’s ass See under balaam . Buridan’s ass See under buridan . Feast of asses See feast of fools . Golden Ass, The See under golden . Law is an ass, The See under law . Wrangle for an ass’s shadow, To See under wrangle...
Cap Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...in the cap of youth’ ( Hamlet , IV, vii ( 1600 )), or ‘Thou art the cap of all the fools alive’ ( Timon of Athens , IV, iii ( 1607 )). Cap and bells The insignia of a professional fool or jester. Cap and gown The full academic costume of a university student, tutor or graduate, worn on formal occasions. Is it a cap and gown affair? Cap and Stocking A Leicester public house whose name and sign commemorates the importance of these articles to the town’s industry, especially the making of statute caps . See also public house signs . Capful of wind Olaus...
Seven Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...from the cross and the entombment. See also seven joys of mary . Seven spiritual works of mercy, The The seven spiritual works of mercy are: (1) to convert the sinner, (2) to instruct the ignorant, (3) to counsel those in doubt, (4) to comfort those in sorrow, (5) to bear wrongs patiently, (6) to forgive injuries, (7) to pray for the living and the dead. See also seven corporal works of mercy . Seven stars, The A name used formerly of the planets , also of the pleiades and the great bear . Fool : The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven...
forty Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
...name The Forty is given to the members of the Académie Française; also called the Forty Immortals . Forty-five an informal name for the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 . Forty Martyrs of England and Wales the name given to a group of English and Welsh Roman Catholics canonized in 1970 as representing those martyred for their faith between 1535 and 1679 . Their feast day is 25 October . forty-niner a seeker for gold in the Californian gold rush of 1849 . forty-ninth parallel the parallel of latitude 49° north of the equator, especially as forming the...
