The Tale of Gamelyn : Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of Genre

Author / Editor
Shippey, T. A.

Title
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.