A Theatre Image in Poetry: Chaucer's Tragedy

Author / Editor
Ebi, Hisato.

Title
A Theatre Image in Poetry: Chaucer's Tragedy

Published
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 137:7 (1991): 345-50.

Description
Confronting the Latin world, Chaucer established his own theory of tragedy, which had not developed completely in the English vernacular. Ebi explores the meanings of "dite," "theatrum," and "scene," concluding that Chaucer used theater imagery to invent his own narrative technique. In Japanese.

Alternative Title
"Shi no gekijōgaku: Chōsā no higeki."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.