Rude Mechanicals and Minotaurs: Shakespeare and Chaucer Among the Mythographers
- Author / Editor
- Storm, Mel.
Rude Mechanicals and Minotaurs: Shakespeare and Chaucer Among the Mythographers
- Published
- Enarratio 14 (2010, for 2007): 139-51.
- Description
- Storm surveys the debt to Chaucer's KnT in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," focusing on the works' mutual concern with hierarchy and order. In both works (and elsewhere in the authors' works), the figure of the Minotaur (parodied in Bottom's transformation) represents the counter principles of disruptive lust and chaos. Storm also comments on Pasiphae in WBP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion