Future Tears and Present Laughter: Warnings of Doom in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Greenwood, M[aria] K.
Future Tears and Present Laughter: Warnings of Doom in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Wendy Harding and A. Mathieu, eds. Le futur dans le Moyen Âge anglais (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), 1: pp. 153-74
- Description
- Examines structural and thematic functions of Chauntecleer's dream exempla in NPT. The exempla all suggest "an unresolved sense of guilt" that casts into tragic relief the events in the barnyard, transforming NPT from comedy to tragedy. The Tale reveals the "evil malignity that lies at the bottom of human hearts."
- Contributor
- Harding, Wendy, ed.
- Mathiew, A., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Le futur dans le Moyen Âge anglais.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.