Chaucer and Moliere: Kindred Patterns of the Dramatic Impulse in Human Comedy.
- Author / Editor
- Stambusky, Alan A.
Chaucer and Moliere: Kindred Patterns of the Dramatic Impulse in Human Comedy.
- Published
- Lock Haven Review 5 (1963): 43-60.
- Description
- Compares MerT, MilT, and ShT with works by Moliére, arguing that Chaucer's "dramatic impulse" is clear in light of "Comedy Proper," a dramatic form in which intellectual error leads to folly and just, comic punishment. Both writers succeed through the ability to depict characters with "certain universal qualities common to all" and lampoon them with "biting, ironical, laugh-logged satire."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale