The 'Canterbury Tales': Personal Drama or Experiments in Poetic Variety?
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
The 'Canterbury Tales': Personal Drama or Experiments in Poetic Variety?
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 93-108.
- Description
- The characters in CT are neither fully developed nor consistent; tellers and their tales are loosely connected. Thus, Kittredge's "dramatic theory" is limited: it leads readers to focus on personalities of the pilgrims rather than on Chaucer's radical stylistic experiments and poetic range.
- Alternative Title
- The Cambridge Chaucer Companion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.