Gower and Shakespeare in "Pericles."
- Author / Editor
- Hoeniger, F. David.
Gower and Shakespeare in "Pericles."
- Published
- Shakespeare Quarterly 33 (1982): 461-79.
- Description
- Describes "the marked incongruity in the sheer quality of styles" in Tho and Mel, commenting on them as "burlesque," and using them to support an argument that Shakespeare intentionally employed mediocre, archaized poetry in the first two acts of "Pericles."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas
Tale of Melibee
Style and Versification