Chaucerian Comedy: 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Mieszkowski, Gretchen.
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