Chaucer's Use of the Bird in the Cage Image in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Economou, George D.

Title
Chaucer's Use of the Bird in the Cage Image in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Philological Quarterly 54 (1975): 679-84.

Description
The uses to which Chaucer put the Bird-in-the-Cage image (in MilT, SqT, and ManT), which he derived from Boethius and Jean de Meun, reveal the precision and complexity of his literary adaptations.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Miller and His Tale.
Squire and His Tale.
Manciple and His Tale.