The Ideal and the Actual: The Philosophical Unity of Canterbury Tales, MS. Group III

Author / Editor
Wasserman, Julian N.

Title
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.