'A Jape of Malice': The Dark Spirit of Chaucer's Fabliaux
- Author / Editor
- Bowker, Alvin Willington.
'A Jape of Malice': The Dark Spirit of Chaucer's Fabliaux
- Published
- DAI 33.09 (1973): 3336A.
- Description
- Identifies the "dark spirit" in MilT, RvT, FrT, SumT, MerT, and ShT, focusing on their "violence, deception, and sense of continual flux rather than their comedy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Reeve and His Tale
- Friar and His Tale
- Summoner and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Shipman and His Tale