Structures and Character-Types of Chaucer's Popular Comic Tales

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek S.

Title
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.