The Evolution of The Monk Tale : Tragical to Farcical

Author / Editor
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.

Title
The Evolution of The Monk Tale : Tragical to Farcical

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 407-14, 2000.

Description
Chaucer invented the "De casibus" tragedy and assigned his tragedies to the Monk only after he had abandoned his "original serious attitude" toward them. Kelly comments on the place of MkT in Chaucer's sequence of composition.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.