The Social Determination of Narrative Performance in Three Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Kempton, Daniel Robert.

Title
The Social Determination of Narrative Performance in Three Canterbury Tales

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 273A-74A.

Description
The Manciple, Physician, and Clerk strain the notion of fictive propriety with their stories. They exploit the storytelling occasion by attempting to come to terms with their estates and the often oppressive audience through replicating conditions of social tension in a fictive environment.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.
Physician and His Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.