Laughing at the Devil: Satan as a Humorous Figure in Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Hartman, Michael Oscar.
Laughing at the Devil: Satan as a Humorous Figure in Middle English Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 559A-60A.
- Description
- Although Old English poetry always depicts Satan as supernaturally powerful (while doctrinally powerless), late-Middle English works show him as comic, the boaster who must fail--as in the mystery cycles followed by the morality plays. In Chaucer's FrT, the summoner seems more evil than the fiend does. Renaissance treatments vary.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.