Writing in the Tragic Mode.
- Author / Editor
- Prendergast, Thomas A.
Writing in the Tragic Mode.
- Published
- Jennifer Jahner, Emily Steiner, and Elizabeth M. Tyler, eds. Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 437-49.
- Description
- Explores relations between medieval written depictions of tragic events in history and "fictional tragedies," commenting on a range of texts, and assessing how, in MkT, "Chaucer seems to suggest . . . that there is a difference between reporting a series of events that are tragic and writing in a tragic mode."
- Contributor
- Jahner, Jennifer, ed.
Steiner, Emily, ed.
Tyler, Elizabeth M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500–1500
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale