Context and Judgment in the 'General Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Andrew, Malcolm.
Context and Judgment in the 'General Prologue'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 23 (1989): 316-37.
- Description
- Analysis of typical scholarly and critical comment on GP reveals that the common practice of assuming a context for the pilgrims' daily lives has some unsatisfactory consequences. Chaucer creates a fiction of travel to free the pilgrims from the contexts, physical and moral, that would encourage the reader to make such restrictive judgments.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.