'The Man of Law's Tale' as a Philosophical Narrative

Author / Editor
Baldwin, Anna.

Title
'The Man of Law's Tale' as a Philosophical Narrative

Published
Yearbook of English Studies 22 (1992): 181-89.

Description
In ClT and especially MLT, Chaucer examines the problem of undeserved suffering. He combines embodiments of patience with realism, producing not exempla but "semi-allegorical" narratives which set out "universal positions."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.