Chaucer's Monk's Tale

Author / Editor
Bornstein, Diane.

Title
Chaucer's Monk's Tale

Published
Explicator 33 (1975): Item 77.

Description
The labors of Hercules, employed by Boethius to show how man may determine his own fortune, are misused by the Monk, who sees the "Consolation" only as a source for secular tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.