Chaucer as Christian Tragic Hero
- Author / Editor
- Ridge, George Ross, and Benedict Chiaka Njoka.
Chaucer as Christian Tragic Hero
- Published
- George Ross Ridge and Benedict Chiaka Njoka. The Christian Tragic Hero in French and English Literature (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1983), pp. 73-84.
- Description
- Impressionistic survey of four Catholic motifs in the CT: the journey of Everyman, fate versus free will, marriage as a sacrament, and the Stoic notion of the "nobleness of man," considering them for the ways that, in Chaucer's presentation, they anticipate Renaissance ideals and signal the demise of medieval attitudes. Comments in particular on KnT, MLT, NPT, WBPT, MerT, and PhyT.
- Contributor
- Njoka, Benedict Chiaka.
- Alternative Title
- Christian Tragic Hero in French and English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Knight and His Tale
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Physician and His Tale