Comedy in Allegory: A Study of Vision and Technique in the Chaucer Tradition from 'The Book of the Duchess' to 'The Faerie Queene'
- Author / Editor
- Leonard. Frances McNeely.
Comedy in Allegory: A Study of Vision and Technique in the Chaucer Tradition from 'The Book of the Duchess' to 'The Faerie Queene'
- Published
- Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Kansas, 1972. DAI 33.11 (1973): 6316-17A. Fully accessible via https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/entities/publication/0f8d3fe5-47a1-4a74-92f4-a04a137a986d (accessed April 12, 2026).
- Physical Description
- vii, 249 pp.
- Description
- Despite the apparent clash between comedy and moral allegory, writers from Chaucer to Spenser combine the two, a fusion rooted in 'La Roman de la Rose.' Treats BD and HF as well as works by Gower, Dunbar, Skelton, and Spenser.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- House of Fame
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion