From Festivity to Spectacle: The Canterbury Tales, Fragment I and A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author / Editor
Andreas, James.

Title
From Festivity to Spectacle: The Canterbury Tales, Fragment I and A Midsummer Night's Dream

Published
UCrow 3 : 19-28, 1980.

Description
Andreas explores the "interplay of serious and comic materials" in the "best work" of Chaucer and Shakespeare, commenting on the use of KnT in A Midsummer Night's Dream and on Shakespeare's adaptations of Chaucer's comic figures in his mechanicals.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Knight and His Tale.