Word: humoured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PROFESSOR CAZAMIAN offers in his latest work a survey of the rise and growth of humour in the literature of England. His purpose is, as he says, strictly historical: he has no intention, on the first page, of explaining the phenomenon, and of illustrating it with numerous examples...
...gone no farther than the Age of Chaucer, however, before he gives himself the lie. By his own statement the Old English period of Beowulf and the riddles possessed nothing which could be called humour. Even Chaucer's humour, as he points out, has little or nothing with the modern form. Modern humour, he says, "hardly came into its own till the Renaissance; prior to that time, the mental complexity which it requires was not very widely diffused...
This type of painting developed in the seventeenth century and is characterized by its broad, vigorous treatment in contrast to the delicacy of the Ukiyoe and its naivete and sense of humour. The Otsue were the forerunners of the Japanese print of the seventeenth century...