Chaucer and 'Tragedy'

Author / Editor
Axton, Richard.

Title
Chaucer and 'Tragedy'

Published
Toshiyuki Takamiya and Richard Beadle, eds. Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), 33-43.

Description
Explores the performative rather than formal aspects of tragedy in Chaucer, surveying contemporary use of the term and Chaucer's projections of his narrative personae as tragedians in TC, LGW (Philomene), MkT, and PhyT. Notes the incompatibility of tragedy and Christianity.

Alternative Title
Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Legend of Good Women.
Monk and His Tale.
Physician and His Tale.