Chaucer and Comedy

Author / Editor
Garbaty, Thomas J.

Title
Chaucer and Comedy

Published
Paul G, Ruggiers, ed. Versions of Medieval Comedy (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977), pp. 173-90. Reprinted in Jean E. Jost, ed. Chaucer's Humor (Garland, 1994), pp. 79-99.

Description
There are those Chaucer readers who feel that he failed to take life seriously enough. His view of the world was indeed serious; it was not, however, a tragic view. His art is his love of the human comedy and thereby hang the tales of some of the most intricate and hilarious characters in literature.

Contributor
Ruggiers, Paul G.,ed.

Alternative Title
Versions of Medieval Comedy.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.