'The Tale of Beryn' and 'The Siege of Thebes': Alternative Ideas of 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
'The Tale of Beryn' and 'The Siege of Thebes': Alternative Ideas of 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 23-50.
- Description
- Explores the literary nature of these two continuations of CT and their importance as early readings, which assume that the pilgrimage is round trip rather than one way.
- Reprinted in Daniel J. Pinti, "Writings After Chaucer" (New York and London: Garland, 1998), pp. 201-25.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.