The Festive Form of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Lindahl, Carl.

Title
The Festive Form of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
ELH 52 (1985): 531-74.

Description
With the Host as a master of revels who cannot coerce the lower orders, CT develops wide audience appeal through the pilgrims as players in a medieval festival atmosphere, where both "gentils" and "churls" participate, often with role reversals and conflicts of order and disorder.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.