Narrativity, Allusion, and the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 According to Froissart, Chaucer, and Paine

Author / Editor
Wood, Charles Roger.

Title
Narrativity, Allusion, and the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 According to Froissart, Chaucer, and Paine

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 1572A.

Description
Froissart's "Chroniques" have shaped subsequent perceptions of the uprising of 1381. Although Chaucer refers to it only once, his placement of the simile in NPT is significant. Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine took opposing eighteenth-century views. Rhetorical analysis reveals how the revolt took shape in human consciousness.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Nun's Priest and His Tale.