Does anyone know of any plays that are based in Medieval times, but are comedies?

Question

I am looking for a play that is relatively modern in writing, but is based in Medieval times and is a comedy. Does such a monster exist?

Answer 1

Hey Lissachck,

First is : Seven medieval Latin comedies (Garland library of medieval literature)

2nd is: Five Comedies of Medieval France
Mary Jessie Parker, Oscar Mandel Illustrator Shannon McNeill Illustrated by Shannon McNeill Mary Parker Nourie
Contents: The play of Saint Nicholas, by J. Bodel.--The play of Robin and Marion, by A. de la Halle.--Peter Quill's shenanigans (Anonymous)--The washtub (Anonymous)--The chicken-pie and the chocolate cake (Anonymous).

Many of Shakespears plays have been modernized. Look for a modern version of one of these.
ain article: Shakespearean comedies

* The Tempest *
* The Two Gentlemen of Verona
* The Merry Wives of Windsor
* Measure for Measure **
* The Comedy of Errors
* Much Ado About Nothing
* Love's Labour's Lost
* A Midsummer Night's Dream
* The Merchant of Venice **
* As You Like It
* The Taming of the Shrew
* All's Well That Ends Well**
* Twelfth Night or What You Will
* The Winter's Tale *
* Pericles, Prince of Tyre * (not included in the First Folio)
* The Two Noble Kinsmen * (not included in the First Folio)

Answer 2

A modern play set in the spring of 1400 (late medieval) is a wonderful comedy in modern verse by Christopher Frye: "The Lady's Not For Burning." It is witty, bawdy, ironic, and quite lovely.

Answer 3

Do you mean "comedy" in the modern, full-of-jokes sense, or the classical, not-a-tragedy sense?

If the latter, "The Lion in Winter", written in the 1960s is called "A Comedy in Two Acts." It has a lot of great, funny lines, and no one dies, but it's not a "comedy" in the Saturday Night Live vein of comdey.