The Tale of Gamelyn : Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of Genre
- Author / Editor
- Shippey, T. A.
The Tale of Gamelyn : Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of Genre
- Published
- Ad Putter and Jane Gilbert, eds. The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance. Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library. (New York: Longman, 2000), pp. 78-96.
- Description
- Attributes the popularity of "Gamelyn," in part, to its association with CT, arguing that Chaucer intended to adapt "Gamelyn" for telling by the Knight's Yeoman, even though Chaucer "did not like yeomen very much." Also assesses the tension between chivalric sentiment and the emphasis in Gamelyn on bourgeois ethos.
- Contributor
- Putter, Ad, ed.
- Gilbert, Jane, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.