The 'Canterbury Tales' II: Comedy

Author / Editor
Pearsall, Derek.

Title
The 'Canterbury Tales' II: Comedy

Published
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 125-42.

Description
Treats setting, tone, and structure of the six comedies in CT: MilT, RvT, ShT, MerT, FrT, and SumT. Discusses the first four as fabliaux, the last two as "masterpieces of satirical anecdote" that do not deal with sex and marriage.
Reprinted in Jean E. Jost, ed. Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays (Garland, 1994), 125-42.

Alternative Title
The Cambridge Chaucer Companion.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.