On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:45:59 -0400 Tyler Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Bruce R. Smith recently argued that Laneham's descriptions of a peasant > marriage ceremony and a Coventry artisans' Hock Tuesday play there are > designed to amuse elite readers. > As did I, in "Kingston to Kenilworth: early plebeian morris", Folklore, vol. 100, 1989, no. 1, 88-104 -- or rather, they are looking at them humorously from a position of detachment Michael Heaney Head of Service Assessment and Planning University Library Services University of Oxford [log in to unmask]