The Semiotics of Comedy in Chaucer's Religious Tales

Author / Editor
Pigg, Daniel F.

Title
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.