Medieval Liturgical Drama: 'The Commedia', 'Piers Plowman', and the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Holloway, Julia Bolton.
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.