Comic Irony and the Sense of Two Audiences in the 'Tale of Gamelyn'
- Author / Editor
- Menkin, Edward Z.
Comic Irony and the Sense of Two Audiences in the 'Tale of Gamelyn'
- Published
- Thoth 10 (1969): 41-53.
- Description
- The Canterbury tale not written by Chaucer operates both as fabliau and as folk tale, with the relentlessly stupid hero both laughed at by the nobility and empathized with by the bourgeoisie, for whom he represents a triumph of the simple classes over the corrupt judiciary and nobility.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.