Chaucerian Comedy: 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Mieszkowski, Gretchen.

Title
Chaucerian Comedy: 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Albrecht Classen, ed. Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Epistemology of a Fundamental Human Behavior, Its Meaning, and Consequences. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, no. 5 (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter), 2010, pp. 457-80.

Series
Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, no. 05.

Description
Mieszkowski contrasts the situational comedy of TC and the structural comedic techniques of MilT, MerT, and SumT. Chaucer generates "all the comedy" of TC by means of Pandarus, whose comic counterpoint compels readers to reconceptualize love without obviating the romantic view. In the poem, love is both comic and transcendent.

Contributor
Classen, Albrecht, ed.

Alternative Title
Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Epistemology of a Fundamental Human Behavior, Its Meaning, and Consequences.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Miller and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale