'I Speke in Prose': Man of Law's Tale, 96

Author / Editor
Edwards, A. S. G.

Title
'I Speke in Prose': Man of Law's Tale, 96

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 92 (1991): 469-70.

Description
In one version of the versified Stacions of Rome, the word "prose" clearly designates a change of subject rather than nonmetrical writing. In MLP, "prose" may signal a verse tale of historical and religious significance.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.