Chaucer's Creative Comedy: A Study of the 'Miller's Tale' and the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Thro, A. Booker.
Chaucer's Creative Comedy: A Study of the 'Miller's Tale' and the 'Shipman's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 5.2 (1970): 97-111.
- Description
- Shows that "in Chaucer's comedy the triumph of wit is often a 'creative' act, an act of imaginative invention and ingenious construction," commenting on the division of the fart in SumT, demonstrating the prevalence of creative, constructive cleverness in MilT (in contrast to the destructiveness of farce), and making clear the wife's creative persuasiveness in ShT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
- Miller and His Tale
- Shipman and His Tale