Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Author / Editor
- Jost, Jean E.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Published
- Steven H. Gale, ed. Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese (New York and London: Garland, 1996): vol. 1, pp. 228-43.
- Physical Description
- 2 vols.
- Description
- Surveys the humor and structural comedy of Chaucer's works, especially CT, examining individual tales and commenting on BD, HF, and PF. Chaucer achieves comic effects through narrative resolution and by manipulating time, place, and circumstances. The article includes a bibliography of critical commentary on Chaucer's comedy.
- Contributor
- Gale, Steven H., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--general
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Parliament of Fowls.