To Make a Virtue of Necessity : Joy and Woe in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Author / Editor
- Labriola, Albert C.
To Make a Virtue of Necessity : Joy and Woe in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Published
- Carla E. Lucente, ed. The Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literature: Selected Proceedings, 1974-1991: A Retrospective (Greensburg, Penn.: Eadmer, 1992), pp. 67-71.
- Description
- Viewed in light of A Midsummer Night's Dream, KnT is "more comic" than traditionally assumed; its cyclic pattern of "proliferating catastrophes becomes humorous."
- Contributor
- Lucente, Carla E., ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literature: Selected Proceedings, 1974-1991: A Retrospective.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Knight and His Tale.