Serious Play: Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto
- Author / Editor
- Hanning, Robert W.
Serious Play: Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto
- Published
- New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 286 pp.
- Description
- Considers "social and political crises that activate the comic poetry" of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto. In particular, chapter 2, "Chaucer: Dealing with the Authorities, Or, Twisting the Nose That Feeds You," addresses Chaucer's humor as it relates to desire and authority in BD, TC, HF, PF, LGW, and CT. Hanning emphasizes how "crises of desire and authority" in each work provide "ample opportunities for comic treatment of cultural and political issues of obvious importance to the poet" (125).
- Alternative Title
- "Chaucer: Dealing with the Authorities, Or, Twisting the Nose That Feeds You."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Book of the Duchess
- House of Fame
- Parliament of Fowls
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Legend of Good Women
- Canterbury Tales--General