The Universality of the Portraits in the 'General Prologue' to the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Morgan, Gerald.

Title
The Universality of the Portraits in the 'General Prologue' to the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
English Studies 58 (1977): 481-93.

Description
The portraits in GP cannot be at once individual and typical. The details cannot be taken as individual because they have been determined by the general conception. Recognition of the reality of the universal is necessary for an understanding of the portraits.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.