Ironic Entertainment
... His use of irony defines this work as a source of entertainment and humor, rather than a simple and mundane documentation of 29 people on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. ... A tale of the nobility of a character who would be expected to cheat and steal, is no doubt ironic, but has no sense of humor. ... Even the introduction of this clerk has another ironic undertone. ... Another ironic detail about his mockery of catholic authorities is that in relatively recent decades, their faults that Chaucer wrote about are becoming publicly known.