Re-Imagining the Class Clown: Chaucer's Clowning Clerics

Author / Editor
Smilie, Ethan K., and Kipton D. Smilie.

Title
Re-Imagining the Class Clown: Chaucer's Clowning Clerics

Published
Interdisciplinary Humanities 31.3 (2014): 32-52.

Description
Surveys Marxist scholarship concerning "class clowns" in American school rooms, classroom management of them, and their vocational potential. Then discusses Nicholas of MilT and John and Aleyn of RvT as students "who ‘work the system' for the sake of leisure and to show off"--class clowns whose pranks "perpetrated class divisions" rather than producing actual change.

Contributor
Smilie, Kipton D.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale