Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation
- Author / Editor
- Walker, Greg.
Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation
- Published
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 206 pp.
- Description
- Explores the "potential value and pitfalls of reading the literature and drama of this period 'historically.'" Chapter 6 addresses Chaucer and argues that Absolon "defies categorization," but seems to have origins in popular religion and medieval drama. Argues that, from a Freudian perspective, Absolon is obsessed with oral pleasure and compares MilT to KnT, comparing Absolon to Palamon and Arcite. Also compares Absolon to Gawain in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Th. Ultimately, reads MilT as critiquing medieval drama and its Mariolatry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations