Comedy in Allegory: A Study of Vision and Technique in the Chaucer Tradition from 'The Book of the Duchess' to 'The Faerie Queene'

Author / Editor
Leonard. Frances McNeely.

Title
Comedy in Allegory: A Study of Vision and Technique in the Chaucer Tradition from 'The Book of the Duchess' to 'The Faerie Queene'

Published
DAI 33.11 (1973): 6316-17A.

Description
Despite the apparent clash between comedy and moral allegory, writers from Chaucer to Spenser combine the two, a fusion rooted in 'La Roman de la Rose.' Treats BD and HF as well as works by Gower, Dunbar, Skelton, and Spenser.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion