Chaucerian Comedy and Shakespearean Tragedy

Author / Editor
Mehl, Dieter.

Title
Chaucerian Comedy and Shakespearean Tragedy

Published
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West Jahrbuch 120 : 111-27, 1984.

Description
TC inspired both Albert Brooke's The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare's play is a "more serious and comprehensive reading" of TC, particularly its fusion of comedy and tragedy, than is Shakespeare's later Troilus and Cressida.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Troilus and Criseyde.