Pathos in Chaucer's Religious Tales
- Author / Editor
- Frank, Robert Worth,Jr.
Pathos in Chaucer's Religious Tales
- Published
- C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 39-52.
- Description
- Through pathos, Chaucer evokes the audience's sympathy, thus transforming PrT, MLT, and ClT from mere tales of wonder or religious abstraction into convincing, dramatic treatments of the virtues they celebrate.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Religious Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.