Rich Words: Gower's 'Rime Riche' in Dramatic Action
- Author / Editor
- Zarins, Kim.
Rich Words: Gower's 'Rime Riche' in Dramatic Action
- Published
- Elisabeth Dutton, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 239-53.
- Description
- Zarins assesses Gower's and Chaucer's uses of rime riche ("in which rhyme patterns appear identical but diverge in meaning"), focusing on instances in which the device lends seriousness (or mock seriousness) in characters' dialogue. Appends a partial list of instances from "Confessio Amantis" and CT.
- Alternative Title
- John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Canterbury Tales--General