Garlands of Derision: The Thematic Imagery in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Author / Editor
- Greenwood, Maria Katarzyna.
Garlands of Derision: The Thematic Imagery in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Published
- Roberta Mullini, introd. Tudor Theatre: For Laughs? Puzzling Laughter in Plays of the Tudor Age/Tudor Théâtre: Pour Rire? Rires et Problèmes dans le Théâtre des Tudor (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 21-39.
- Description
- Bakhtinian analysis of references to garlands and garlanding in KnT and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Greenwood traces the classical traditions of garlands of love and glory, arguing that depictions of both "veer towards negative criticism" in these two works. Shakespeare distrusts them and Chaucer uses them to provoke alternative readings.
- Contributor
- Mullini, Roberta, intro.
- Alternative Title
- Tudor Theatre: For Laughs? Puzzling Laughter in Plays of the Tudor Age/Tudor Théâtre: Pour Rire? Rires et Problèmes dans le Théâtre des Tudor.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.