Comic Pleasures: Chaucer and Popular Romance

Author / Editor
Symons, Dana M.

Title
Comic Pleasures: Chaucer and Popular Romance

Published
Sandra M. Hordis and Paul Hardwick, eds. Medieval English Comedy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007), pp. 83-109.

Description
Symons compares and contrasts the comic inaction of Th with comic spectacle in MilT and in the popular romance "Sir Tristrem." A "sophisticatedly 'bad' poem," Th depends for its success on expectations that differ from those of popular literature.

Alternative Title
Medieval English Comedy.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas
Miller and His Tale.