LEADER 03689nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910457381903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-60823-8 010 $a9786613788726 010 $a0-231-52639-3 024 7 $a10.7312/hann15210 035 $a(CKB)2550000000065832 035 $a(EBL)908795 035 $a(OCoLC)828303880 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565700 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12254729 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565700 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10532852 035 $a(PQKB)11086794 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908795 035 $a(DE-B1597)458923 035 $a(OCoLC)774284335 035 $a(OCoLC)979574503 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231526395 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908795 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10514398 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL378872 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000065832 100 $a20100216d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSerious play$b[electronic resource] $edesire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto /$fRobert W. Hanning 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (307 p.) 225 1 $aUniversity seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-15210-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aOvid's amatory poetry: Rome in a comic mirror -- Chaucer: dealing with the authorities; or, Twisting the nose that feeds you -- Ariosto's Orlando Furioso: confusion multiply confounded; or, Astray in the forest of desire. 330 $aOvid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, and disturbing fantasy, an achievement hailed as serio ludere, serious play, by Renaissance theorists.Through an imaginative analysis of Ovid's amatory poetry, Chaucer's dream poems and excerpts from the Canterbury Tales, and Ariosto's epic Orlando Furioso, Robert W. Hanning illuminates the contrast and continuities in often hilarious, always empathetic representations of bungled desire and thwarted political authority. He also documents the response of all three poets to the "authority" of cultural predecessors and poetic convention. Each poet lived through exciting times (Augustan Rome, late-medieval London, and high-Renaissance Italy, respectively) and their outsider-insider status links them as memorable speakers of comedic truth to power. Providing fresh perspectives on Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto within their rich historical moments, Serious Play isolates the elements that make their work so appealing centuries after they lived, observed, and wrote. 410 0$aUniversity seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures. 606 $aComic, The, in literature 606 $aDesire in literature 606 $aAuthority in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aComic, The, in literature. 615 0$aDesire in literature. 615 0$aAuthority in literature. 676 $a809/.917 700 $aHanning$b Robert W$0197912 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457381903321 996 $aSerious play$92471559 997 $aUNINA