The Yoke of Canon: Chaucerian Aspects of 'The Plowman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Costomiris, Robert.
The Yoke of Canon: Chaucerian Aspects of 'The Plowman's Tale'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 71 (1992): 185-98.
- Description
- "The Plowman's Tale" was regularly included in editions of CT from William Thynne's second edition in 1542 until Thomas Tyrwhitt's 1778 edition. Various qualities of the tale might have led sixteenth-century readers to accept the poem as Chaucer's: thematic parallels with NPT, ManT, CYT, and ParsT; stylistic similarities to Th; and an overtly moral emphasis that coincided with the view of Chaucer as a moral poet.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
- Plowman and the Tale