Saints' Lives and the Sultaness: A Note on a Perplexing Episode in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Leffingwell, William.
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.