Chaucer's Tales of Transcendence: Rhyme Royal and Christian Prayer in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Nolan, Barbara.

Title
Chaucer's Tales of Transcendence: Rhyme Royal and Christian Prayer in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 21-38.

Description
The "special quality" of MLT, ClT, PrT and SNT is their focus on spiritual transcendence rather than simply religious or moral values. All four tales "reveal exactly the same incandescent core of prayerful faith and spiritual aspiration presented with the same affective clarity in the same form"--rhyme royal.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Religious Tales.

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