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.

Title
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.