Some reflections on the 'Tale of Sir Thopas'

Author / Editor
Ando, Shinsuke.

Title
Some reflections on the 'Tale of Sir Thopas'

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988), pp. 31-39.

Description
Examines words and phrases in Th to reveal "hidden elements of satire and parody," which are intensified by Chaucer's masterful and paradoxical handling of the author in the text. The language of satire and parody defies translation.

Alternative Title
Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas.