Versions of Comedy in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Pearsall, Derek.

Title
Versions of Comedy in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Joerg O. Fichte, ed. Chaucer's Frame Tales (Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 1987): pp. 35-49.

Description
With characters slightly less than human, Chaucer's fabliaux, a sort of "guerrilla warfare on established values," deviate from the classical definition of comedy ridiculing vice and folly to correct deviancy. Fabliaux characters are opposed to the noble and self-transcending romance characters, equally nonrealistic.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Frame Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.