Masks of the Unconscious: Bad Faith and Casuistry in the Dramatic Monologue
- Author / Editor
- Shaw, W. David.
Masks of the Unconscious: Bad Faith and Casuistry in the Dramatic Monologue
- Published
- ELH 66 : 439-60, 1999.
- Description
- Reader-response analysis of various dramatic monologues. Shaw focuses on the dramatic monologues of Robert Browning and other Victorians but clarifies the functions of deception, self-deception, casuistry, irony, double irony, and Sartre's concept of "bad faith" by assessing works of Chaucer, Donne, the Earl of Rochester, and others. Shaw describes the Pardoner as a "simple liar" and examines the potential for double ironies in the GP description of the Wife of Bath and in WBP, focusing on "daungerous" (3.151) in the latter.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.