Medieval Liturgical Drama: 'The Commedia', 'Piers Plowman', and the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Holloway, Julia Bolton.

Title
Medieval Liturgical Drama: 'The Commedia', 'Piers Plowman', and the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
American Benedictine Review 32 (1981): 114-21.

Description
Recent Princeton performances of the "Officium Peregrinorum" (from Luke 24) reveal probable echoes in CT of the liturgical drama of Christ's pilgrimage to Emmaus in the pilgrimage frame itself, in the poet who like Christ uses "lying" fables to present truth, and in the motif of the naive narrator.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.