Biblical Parody: Chaucer's 'Distortions' of Scripture

Author / Editor
Reiss, Edmund.

Title
Biblical Parody: Chaucer's 'Distortions' of Scripture

Published
David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 47-61.

Description
The 700 biblical quotations and allusions in Chaucer are used to support arguments, to suggest "a plethora of significances," to evoke, to echo; or, alternatively, to alter, pervert, or misapply biblical themes, exposing human folly, as in MilT, MerT, GP, MLT, NPT, ShT, SumT, PardT, PrT, MkT, WBT, and ParsT.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.