Chaucer's Rhyme Royal Tales and the Secularization of the Saint

Author / Editor
Brody, Saul Nathaniel.

Title
Chaucer's Rhyme Royal Tales and the Secularization of the Saint

Published
Chaucer Review 20 (1985): 113-31.

Description
By his choice of stanza Chaucer invites us to compare four tales: SNT, PrT, MLT, ClT, each an elevated tale of saintly suffering involving impingement of secularism upon the saintly ideal. Completed earlier, PhyT is not in rhyme royal.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.