Comic Perspective in Two Middle English Poems
- Author / Editor
- Wright, M. J.
Comic Perspective in Two Middle English Poems
- Published
- Parergon 18 (1977): 3-15.
- Description
- "Pearl" is a divine comedy which views earthly matters from above with tolerance. In KnT Chaucer eliminates the flight to the heavens found in "Teseida"; the perspective of Theseus is earthly but still tolerant. In TC, by contrast, Troilus' ascent has a "contemptus mundi" effect.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.