Authority and Interpretation in Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee'

Author / Editor
Grace, Dominick M.

Title
Authority and Interpretation in Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 492A-93A.

Description
Although critics have generally seen Mel as a simple allegory in fairly close translation, the Tale departs from Renaud in significant ways to question the nature of authority (good advice can be wrong; authorities can disagree; motivations can subvert). Mel is integral to CT, not anomalous.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Melibee.