Notes Towards a Theory of Tragedy in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Ruggiers, Paul G.
Notes Towards a Theory of Tragedy in Chaucer
- Published
- Chaucer Review 8.2 (1973): 89-99.
- Description
- Comments on Chaucer's "serious" poetry for the ways that it relates to various kinds of tragedy and tragic outlook--classical Greek, Boethian, "pathetic tragedy," ethical or moral tragedy, etc. Except in extreme cases such as MkT, Chaucer inflects his depictions of fate and human responsibility with either pathos or irony.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Monk and His Tale