The Ideal and the Actual: The Philosophical Unity of Canterbury Tales, MS. Group III
- Author / Editor
- Wasserman, Julian N.
The Ideal and the Actual: The Philosophical Unity of Canterbury Tales, MS. Group III
- Published
- Allegorica 7 (1982): 65-99.
- Description
- WBT, FrT, and SumT exhibit a thematic unity through common concern of "championing one...of two antithetical ways of perceiving the world." Wife and Summoner tell tales from an Aristotelian perspective, the Friar from a Platonic perspective.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Friar and His Tale.
- Summoner and His Tale.