Miswriting Tragedy: Genealogy, History and Orthography in the Canterbury Tales, Fragment One
- Author / Editor
- Ramdass, Harold Nigel.
Miswriting Tragedy: Genealogy, History and Orthography in the Canterbury Tales, Fragment One
- Published
- DAI A68.05 (2007): n.p.
- Description
- Fragment 1 of CT (KnT, MilT, and RvT) "posit[s] contra-factual histories" for Chaucer's source texts while employing imagery of "sodomy, rape and monstrous hybrids" as refutations of those histories' threats to the structure of a salvation comedy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.