Chaucer's Proverbs and His Comic Art in Some Fabliaux
- Author / Editor
- Fujiki, Takayoshi.
Chaucer's Proverbs and His Comic Art in Some Fabliaux
- Published
- Sapientia 39 (2005): 59-72.
- Description
- Fujiki considers comic "misapplication of proverbs" in TC (Pandarus), MilT (John), MerT (January), and SumT (the friar), suggesting that Chaucer capitalized on his audience's expectation of proverbs to characterize some users as foolish.
- In Japanese, with English abstract.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Miller and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Summoner and His Tale
- Style and Versification