The 'Reeve's Tale' and the Comedy of Limitation
- Author / Editor
- Frank, Robert Worth, Jr.
The 'Reeve's Tale' and the Comedy of Limitation
- Published
- Stanley Weintraub and Philip Young, eds. Directions in Literary Criticism: Contemporary Approaches to Literature (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973), pp. 53-69.
- Description
- Reads RvP as a "confession of old age" and RvT as a "tribute" to unrestrained passion and an extension of the concern with love in KnT and MilT. Compares RvT with its analogues, and comments on its characterizations, the straightforwardness of its comedy, its style, and its thematic concerns with "space and place" and with the "inescapable reality of the real world."
- Contributor
- Weintraub, Stanley, ed.
- Young, Philip, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Directions in Literary Criticism: Contemporary Approaches to Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Style and Versification