Chaucer's Idea of a Canterbury Game
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Glending.
Chaucer's Idea of a Canterbury Game
- Published
- James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 72-90.
- Description
- CT is a collection of narratives bound together in a frame with two central features: a pilgrimage and a game. The pilgrimage is the outer frame, while the game is a second, inner framing device--the organizing principle that brings the stories into being.
- Fragment 1 is a storytelling sequence that parallels medieval commonplace notions of play and players.
- Alternative Title
- Idea of Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.