The Canterbury Tales: Beginnings (3) and Endings (2 + 1)
- Author / Editor
- Owen, Charles A., Jr.
The Canterbury Tales: Beginnings (3) and Endings (2 + 1)
- Published
- Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 189-212.
- Description
- Hypothesizes that Mel, told by the Man of Law, was once the first tale in the Canterbury sequence, later replaced by MLT; KnT was placed first only in a third stage of revision. ParsP indicates Chaucer's initial plan: one tale per teller. He developed the contest and plans for multiple tales later. The placement of ParsT is scribal. Fifteenth-century orderings of CT disguise the fact that Chaucer's plans were far from fulfillment.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.