Glenn Jones: The Bawdy Bard

Raucous texts – mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences to get drunk; and shocking them with slapstick – shed new light on Britain’s famous sense of humour, and the role played by minstrels in medieval society. Glenn Jones gets the story from Dr James Wade, from the University of Cambridge’s English Faculty and Girton College.

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