Sir Thopas: The Bourgeois Knight, the Minstrel, and the Critics.
- Author / Editor
- Scheps, Walter.
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