From Chaucer's Pardoner to Shakespeare's Iago: Aspects of Intermediality in the History of the Vice
- Author / Editor
- Goth, Maik.
From Chaucer's Pardoner to Shakespeare's Iago: Aspects of Intermediality in the History of the Vice
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009.
- Physical Description
- 143 pp.
- Description
- Reconsiders Harold Bloom's argument that Shakespeare, when creating Iago, was influenced by Chaucer's Pardoner. Goth explores the "dramatic" nature of the Pardoner's character and his relations with Vice figures from late medieval drama as well as Faus Semblant from the "Roman de la Rose." Common features of Iago and the Pardoner, the book suggests, derive independently from the Vice tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations