The Aesthetic of Chaucer's Religious Tales in Rhyme Royal
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
The Aesthetic of Chaucer's Religious Tales in Rhyme Royal
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 101-17.
- Description
- Argues that "Chaucer is as much a religious artist as a comic artist" and that to exclude either fabliaux or religious tales is to reduce the achievement of CT. Examines the common aesthetic of PrT, SNT, MLT, and ClT, which despite their stylistic variety, share four elements: "fidelity, emotion, accessibility, and transcendence."
- Alternative Title
- Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.