Costume Comedy: Sir Thopas's 'Courtly' Dress
- Author / Editor
- Hodges, Laura
Costume Comedy: Sir Thopas's 'Courtly' Dress
- Published
- Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 171-83.
- Description
- Alone among Chaucer's knights, Thopas receives a full costume description, but it defies readers' expectations of a top-to-toe effictio. Th also juxtaposes cheap and costly materials, mentions unattractive colors, and omits expected details, all for comic effect. These costume details would be emphasized in oral performance.
- Alternative Title
- Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas