Literary, Legal, and Last Judgments in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Dobbs, Elizabeth [Ann]
Literary, Legal, and Last Judgments in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 31-52.
- Description
- Analyzes the tale-telling contract in the context of late-medieval English legal terminology. Explores Chaucer's use of legal diction and situation to establish both the telling of the tales as a form of pleading and the Host's role as judge until he abandons it in ParsP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.