Chaucerian Laughter in a "Litel" Tragedy: Humour in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Yildiz, Nazan.
Chaucerian Laughter in a "Litel" Tragedy: Humour in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Seyda Sivrioglu, and others, eds. Bati Edebiyatinda Mizah / Humor in Western Literature / L'humour Dans la Literature Occidentale / Humor in Der Westlichen Literatur (Istanbul: Kriter, 2016), pp. 345-56.
- Description
- Argues that through "exaggeration of romance and courtly love elements" in TC and the "heavenly laughter" of Troilus at the poem's end, Chaucer "turns the tragic story of Troilus and Criseyde first into a comedy then into a divine comedy."
- Contributor
- Sivrioglu, Seyda, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Bati Edebiyatinda Mizah / Humor in Western Literature / L'humour Dans la Literature Occidentale / Humor in Der Westlichen
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde