Chaucer's Alexander the Great and the "Monk's Tale": Reconsidering the Fourteenth-Century Reception of a Pagan's Tragedy.
- Author / Editor
- Stone, Russell.
Chaucer's Alexander the Great and the "Monk's Tale": Reconsidering the Fourteenth-Century Reception of a Pagan's Tragedy.
- Published
- Medievalia et Humanistica 42 (2017): 23-42.
- Description
- Observes that Chaucer's treatment of Alexander in MkT is largely consistent with how Alexander is depicted in fourteenth-century romances and monastic allusions. Suggests that Chaucer declines to condemn Alexander as an unworthy pagan, despite being familiar with these traditions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
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