Chaucer's Title: 'The Tales of Caunterbury'

Author / Editor
Pratt, Robert A.

Title
Chaucer's Title: 'The Tales of Caunterbury'

Published
Philological Quarterly 54 (1975): 19-25.

Description
Manuscript evidence indicates that Chaucer intended the title of his longest work to be "The Tales of Caunterbury." During the fifteenth century, however, the work became known popularly as "The Canterbury Tales."

Alternative Title
From Chaucer to Gibbon: Essays in Memory of Curt A. Zimansky. [Special issue of Philological Quarterly]

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.