"Irony in Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale"" by Steven Allen Theys
 

Date of Award

4-23-1971

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

First Advisor

John D. McCabe

Abstract

In their search for the meaning of Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" scholars and critics have assumed the serious and noble intent of the poem noting only briefly its wide range of humor . A substantial amount of the critical material which discusses this tale is directed towards a rationalization and explication of the amazingly high number of incongruities which seem to adhere to the poem . Dryden's judgment of the "Knight ' s Tale" as nearly of the "eqique kind" seems to have, even today, a great influence upon critical positions .

Comments

An Essay Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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