The General Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Kirby, Thomas A.
The General Prologue
- Published
- Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 243-70.
- Description
- GP not only is a brilliant poem in itself but also sets the tone for the entire work to follow. It skillfully blends the real with the ideal world--all seen through the device of a narrative persona. Chaucer uses several devices for description, but varies them for dramatic effect; he describes, for example, only one representative for each profession.
- Reprinted from the first (1968) edition, with updated bibliography.
- Alternative Title
- Companion to Chaucer Studies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.