Chaucer's laughter

Author / Editor
Hira, Toshinori.

Title
Chaucer's laughter

Published
Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, 20 (1979): 27-42.

Description
Chaucer as a court poet adapts himself to the pattern of sentiments of the court audience. He views the bourgeois pragmatism from the aristocratic standpoint. However, in his fabliaux he could deliberately make fun of the attitude of the aristocrats.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.