The Absolute Comic

Author / Editor
Kern, Edith.

Title
The Absolute Comic

Published
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.

Description
Mikhail Bakhtin's study of the grotesquerie of medieval folk festivals encourages us to view certain Chaucerian characters in the carnivalesque spirit of absolute comedy: moral offenders such as Alysoun of MilT escape unscathed; Nicholas is punished only by accident. The trickster, Daun John, goes scot-free in ShT; May of FranT is not censured for deceit.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.