We don't think of the Middle Ages as particularly humorous, but it turns out we've been wrong all along! Jamie Kreiner, the author of The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom, explores early (and unfamiliar) comedy, with some jokes along the way.
Read MoreTranslating jokes is hard. In his second feature to mark our sponsorship of the Cambridge Greek Play 2013, Dr Oliver Thomas considers some of the ways of translating (and not translating) an ancient Greek play to keep it amusing.
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