Critical Approaches to the 'Man of Law's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, A. S. G.
Critical Approaches to the 'Man of Law's Tale'
- Published
- C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 85-94.
- Description
- Noting that MLT has often been apologized for or ignored, Edwards surveys critical approaches to the tale: the date of its composition, its place in the Canterbury sequence, source study, biography, narrative voice, the problem of Constance, allegory, and gender criticism. Only Morton Bloomfield has made a "notable attempt to address the 'Tale's problems...in Christian terms."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Religious Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.