Dramatic Time, Setting, and Motivation in Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- West, Michael D.
Dramatic Time, Setting, and Motivation in Chaucer.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 2.3 (1968): 172-87.
- Description
- Contrasts MerT, PrT, and PardT with their respective analogues, contending that Chaucer's Tales are inconsistent in time, setting, and character motivation, reflecting "Chaucer's lack of concern for real people and real objects." Similarly in TC, Chaucer's characters operate "within a framework of deliberate aesthetic stylization" because he is more concerned with didactic persuasion than realistic depiction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification