Laughter in the 'Second Nun's Tale': A Redefinition of the Genre
- Author / Editor
- Eggebroten, Anne.
Laughter in the 'Second Nun's Tale': A Redefinition of the Genre
- Published
- Chaucer Review 19 (1984): 53-61.
- Description
- Response to saints' legends is normally sober, but "Legenda Aurea," Chaucer's source for SNT, exhibits flashes of humor. In a reading of SNT that accepts the natural response of laughter, Valerian, Tiburce, and Almachius are seen to play the fool, thus setting into new perspective the perfection of Cecilia.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.