"Thou shalt knowen of oure Privetee / Moore than a maister of dyvynytee": Devils and Damnation in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus."
- Author / Editor
- Greene, Darragh.
"Thou shalt knowen of oure Privetee / Moore than a maister of dyvynytee": Devils and Damnation in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus."
- Published
- Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 166-84.
- Description
- Argues "that Chaucer's treatment of devils, damnation, and hell" in CT "resonates" in "Doctor Faustus," focusing on the yeoman-devil and “the force and binding implications of illocutionary acts” in FrT, as well as on “interesting parallels” between the Pardoner and Faustus as "vain characters" who are "master rhetoricians" and "contemptuous of conventional morality." Contrasts Chaucer's and Marlowe's views of penitence--comic and tragic respectively.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Friar and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale