Thematic Word-Play in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Hoyt, Douglas Henry.
Thematic Word-Play in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- DAI 35.05 (1974): 2941A.
- Description
- Tallies Chaucer's varieties of word-play and explores their thematic value in relation to his concern with the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and play. Focuses on rhetorical tradition, play on "child" in PrT, the unity of SqT and FranT, and the Parson's upgrading of "play" to "feast" in ParsP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Style and Versification
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Squire and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale