Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Shakespearean Character
- Author / Editor
- Bloom, Harold.
Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Shakespearean Character
- Published
- Harold Bloom. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (New York, San Diego, and London: Harcourt, 1994), pp. 105-26.
- Description
- Appreciative criticism of Chaucer and his contribution to Western literary tradition, especially his anticipation of Shakespeare as a comic ironist and creator of self-conscious characters. Focuses on CT--in particular, the Falstaffian vitality of the Wife of Bath and the Iago-like genius of the Pardoner, the "first nihilist, at least in literature."
- Alternative Title
- The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.