Chaucer as Revolutionary
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
Chaucer as Revolutionary
- Published
- John Michael Crafton, ed. Selected Essays: International Conference on Representing Revolution, 1989. (Carrollton): West Georgia College International Conference, 1991, pp. 9-20.
- Description
- Compares Chaucer's poetry and the so-called Peasants' Revolt of 1381, demonstrating their common unexpectedness, extremism, touches of conservatism, and uniqueness. As is clear from his treatment of the Revolt in NPT, Chaucer was not a political rebel, but he was a poetic revolutionary.
- Contributor
- Crafton, John Michael, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Selected Essays: International Conference on Representing Revolution, 1989.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.