Satire

Author / Editor
Ogborn, Jane, and Peter Buckroyd.

Title
Satire

Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Physical Description
128 pp.

Series
Contexts in Literature.

Description
An introduction to satire for classroom use, directed at university students and focusing on English literature from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy; concerned with definitions, social contexts, and the transaction between reader and text. The discussion of Chaucer (especially pp. 31-35) pertains to the GP description of the Pardoner.

Contributor
Buckroyd, Peter.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale