Saints' Lives and the Sultaness: A Note on a Perplexing Episode in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Leffingwell, William.

Title
Saints' Lives and the Sultaness: A Note on a Perplexing Episode in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
Thoth 12 (1971): 29-32.

Description
In giving the tale of Constance the form and narrative structure of a saint's life while omitting conventional motivations or explanations, Chaucer has made the Man of Law an inept narrator and has invested the tale with irony and humor.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.