Chaucer, Dante, and the Structure of Fragment VIII (G) of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Glending.
Chaucer, Dante, and the Structure of Fragment VIII (G) of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 16 (1982): 222-36.
- Description
- The fragment containing SNT and CYT is unique in the intrusion of new pilgrims undescribed in GP. Two seemingly unrelated stories are tightly unified: SNT in the "lastynge bisynesse" of Saint Cecilia; CYT in the fraudulent "bisynesse" of the Canon, one activity leading to God, the other to perdition. In SNT several lines from Dante's "Paradiso" appear; CYT suggests the "Inferno."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.