Chaucer's Religious Tales : A Question of Genre

Author / Editor
Pearsall, Derek.

Title
Chaucer's Religious Tales : A Question of Genre

Published
C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 11-19.

Description
Chaucer's religious tales (Mel, ParsT, ClT, MLT, PrT, SNT, PhyT, MkT) are "predicated upon the assumption that the significance of human life is the transcending of its secular limitation through Christian faith." The only tales in CT not written in pentameter couplets, these tales have been systematically marginalized to "relieve" Chaucer "of full responsibility for tales that the modern reader has little taste for."

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Religious Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Man of Law and His Tale.
Tale of Melibee.
Parson and His Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.
Second Nun and Her Tale.
Physician and His Tale.
Monk and His Tale.
Style and Versification.