The Semiotics of Comedy in Chaucer's Religious Tales
- Author / Editor
- Pigg, Daniel F.
The Semiotics of Comedy in Chaucer's Religious Tales
- Published
- Jean E. Jost, ed. Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays (New York and London: Garland, 1994), pp. 321-48.
- Description
- Pigg traces a pattern in the Ellesmere order of CT, beginning with how the narrators circumscribe the religious comedy of MLT and ClT by keeping their plots earthbound. PhyT is a "transitional ... refiguring" that leads to the more spiritual accounts of PrT and SNT. The sequence constitutes "the poet's contemplation of religious comedy."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.