DON L. F. NILSEN is Professor of English Linguistics at Arizona State University and Executive Secretary of the International Society for Humor Studies. His previous books include Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography (Greenwood, 1993) and Humor in Irish Literature: A Research Guide (Greenwood, 1996).

• Preface Introduction Humour in Medieval British Literature Humour in Fourteenth-Century British Literature Humour in Fifteenth-Century British Literature Humour in Sixteenth-Century British Literature Humour in Seventeenth-Century British Literature Index

DON L. F. NILSEN is Professor of English Linguistics at Arizona State University and Executive Secretary of the International Society for Humor Studies. His previous books include Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography (Greenwood, 1993) and Humor in Irish Literature: A Research Guide (Greenwood, 1996).

• Preface Introduction Humour in Medieval British Literature Humour in Fourteenth-Century British Literature Humour in Fifteenth-Century British Literature Humour in Sixteenth-Century British Literature Humour in Seventeenth-Century British Literature Index

DON L. F. NILSEN is Professor of English Linguistics at Arizona State University and Executive Secretary of the International Society for Humor Studies. His previous books include Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography (Greenwood, 1993) and Humor in Irish Literature: A Research Guide (Greenwood, 1996).

• Preface Introduction Humour in Medieval British Literature Humour in Fourteenth-Century British Literature Humour in Fifteenth-Century British Literature Humour in Sixteenth-Century British Literature Humour in Seventeenth-Century British Literature Index