Allegory in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Miller, Robert P.

Title
Allegory in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 326-51.

Description
The much-disputed allegorical criticism of CT is a fairly recent phenomenon. Chaucer's allegories maybe either "formal" (e.g., ClT) or "informal" (e.g., KnT)--both styles deriving from "a reservoir of established menaings shared by the poet and his audience."
Reprinted from the first (1968) edition, with updated bibliography.

Alternative Title
Companion to Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.