Writing in the Tragic Mode.

Author / Editor
Prendergast, Thomas A.

Title
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