The 'Canterbury Tales' III: Pathos
- Author / Editor
- Frank, Robert Worth,Jr.
The 'Canterbury Tales' III: Pathos
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 143-58.
- Description
- Although Chaucer's "tales of pathos"--MLT, ClT, PhyT, PrT, and MkT--do not constitute a genre, they share characteristics: lack of comedy, absence of irony, little complexity, abstract settings, and characters "motivated by a single virtue." Each tale achieves a "strong emotional effect." Frank discusses religious meditations, saints' lives, "de casibus" tragedies, and Chaucer's sources.
- Alternative Title
- The Cambridge Chaucer Companion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.