附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-221) and index.
Prologue -- How rabelaisian is Rabelais? -- Laugh, and the world laughs with you -- French literary laughter -- Rire est le propre de l'homme -- Laughing Rabelais -- 'Literary' genres -- Epic and mock-epic laughter -- Laughter stage -- From humanism to trivial pursuit -- Humanist facetiae -- Reformation satire -- The library of Saint-Victor -- Rabelais and rhetoric -- Panurge orator: The Parisian lady -- Panurge orator: The praise of debts -- Doctor Rabelais -- Therapeutic laughter -- Comic diet -- Law and medicine -- Roman and canon law -- Rabelais and law -- Bridoye -- Envoi -- Appendix -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Bibliography.
