#TIL: Das Killer-Kaninchen von den Monty Phyton ist schon Jahrhunderte alt.

Siehe etwa das Heege Manuscript aus dem 15ten Jahrhundert:
"Jack Wade was never so sad / As when the hare trod on his head / In case she would have ripped out his throat."
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/bawdy-bard-act-discovered-revealing-fifteenth-century-roots-of-british-comedy

Dr Wade says: "Killer rabbit jokes have a long tradition in medieval literature. Chaucer did this a century earlier in the Canterbury Tales."

#Humor #BritischerHumor #MontyPhyton #Mittelalter #HeegeManuscript

‘Mad and offensive’ texts shed light on the role played by minstrels in medieval society - Sarah Shaffi, The Guardian, 31 May 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/31/mad-and-offensive-texts-shed-light-on-the-role-played-by-minstrels-in-medieval-society

#libraries #archives #comedy #history #British #HeegeManuscript

‘Mad and offensive’ texts shed light on the role played by minstrels in medieval society - Sarah Shaffi, The Guardian, 31 May 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/31/mad-and-offensive-texts-shed-light-on-the-role-played-by-minstrels-in-medieval-society

#libraries #archives #comedy #history #society #Britain #HeegeManuscript