Garlands of Derision: The Thematic Imagery of Garlands. Part II: The Garlands of Power: Chaucer's The Knight's Tale and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author / Editor
Greenwood, Maria K.

Title
Garlands of Derision: The Thematic Imagery of Garlands. Part II: The Garlands of Power: Chaucer's The Knight's Tale and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Published
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. Marges/Seuils: Le liminal dans la littérature médiévale anglaise ((Nancy: AMAES, 2006), pp. 271-89.

Description
As Greenwood has shown in a previous study, garlanding often implied criticism. In KnT and A Midsummer's Night's Dream, however, it is an acknowledgment of power.

Alternative Title
Marges/Seuils: Le liminal dans la littérature médiévale anglaise.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.