The Fool in the Wakefield Plays
- Author / Editor
- Stevens, Martin, and James Paxson.
The Fool in the Wakefield Plays
- Published
- Studies in Iconography 13 (1989-90): 48-79.
- Description
- The conflation of the fool with the devil in medieval representation reflected unstable boundaries between the witless man, who had the protection of the Church, and his imitator, the artificial fool. The Wakefield Satan, an artificial fool, is traceable to Guilielmus Peraldus, a mid-13th-century writer who strongly influenced Chaucer.
- Contributor
- Paxson, James (J.)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism