Poetic Variety in the 'Man of Law's' and the 'Clerk's Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
Poetic Variety in the 'Man of Law's' and the 'Clerk's Tales'
- Published
- C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 137-44.
- Description
- Not all of Chaucer's religious tales are alike. In MLT and ClT, Chaucer "transforms the same basic material into two radically different, though equally valid, varieties of religious poetry." A religious romance, MLT "employs great rhetorical flourish," presents its heroine sympathetically, and celebrates an omnipotent God. The more austere ClT "frustrates ... interpretation," keeps emotion "under tight control," and distances God.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Religious Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.