Chaucer Borrows from Gower: The Sources of the Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Nicholson, Peter.
Chaucer Borrows from Gower: The Sources of the Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- R. F. Yeager, ed. Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutability, Exchange (Victoria B. C.: University of Victoria, 1991), pp. 85-99.
- Description
- Chaucer had two sources for MLT: Gower's Confessio Amantis (2.587-1707) and Trevet's Chronicles, which also served as Gower's source. Placing all three versions side by side, one can find evidence that Gower was Chaucer's principal source.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutability, Exchange.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Man of Law and His Tale.