'So Sely an Avisyon': Chaucer's 'House of Fame' as Comic Monologue

Author / Editor
Hyman, Eric.

Title
'So Sely an Avisyon': Chaucer's 'House of Fame' as Comic Monologue

Published
Essays in Literature (Macomb, Ill.) 16 (1989): 155-71.

Description
HF might best be perceived "as a comic monologue, as a series of jokes with comic business instead of a controlling theme." It is thus closer in tone and intent to W. S. Gilbert than to Dante or Boethius.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.