Sir Thopas: The Bourgeois Knight, the Minstrel, and the Critics.

Author / Editor
Scheps, Walter.

Title
Sir Thopas: The Bourgeois Knight, the Minstrel, and the Critics.

Published
Tennessee Studies in Literature 11 (1966): 35-43.

Description
Describes and paraphrases Thop, focusing on its style, vocabulary, genre, and adaptation of conventions to show that a tension between "the heroic and the bourgeois" underpins much of the bathos of the Tale and its parodic impact.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas
Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies