Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee': 'A lytel thyng in prose'

Author / Editor
Kempton, Daniel.

Title
Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee': 'A lytel thyng in prose'

Published
Genre 21 (1988): 263-78.

Description
Unlike other recent critics, who have viewed Mel as a "treatise," Kempton sees it as a "tale" with dramatic personages. It is meant not to enforce one didactic point but to teach us to give up the search for authority and to enjoy the play of pilgrim voices.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Melibee.