Structures and Character-Types of Chaucer's Popular Comic Tales
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Derek S.
Structures and Character-Types of Chaucer's Popular Comic Tales
- Published
- J. Coy and J. de Hoz, eds. Estudios Sobre los generos literarios, I: Grecia clasica e Inglaterra (Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 1975), pp. 107-18.
- Description
- The character types in Chaucer's comic tales spring from the popular Aristophanic tradition; "popular" here does not exclude the learned or learning. While the humor of the tales is ambivalent and derisive, it yet elicits acceptance and sympathy.
- Contributor
- Coy, J.,
- Hoz, J. de,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Estudios Sobre los generos literarios, I: Grecia clasica e Inglaterra.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.