'Pars Secunda' and the Development of the 'Canon's Yeoman's Tale'

Author / Editor
Hartung, Albert E.

Title
'Pars Secunda' and the Development of the 'Canon's Yeoman's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 111-28.

Description
The argument by John M. Manly (1926) that "Pars Secunda" of CYT was not originally part of CTY at all but was an earlier tale intended for a separate occasion and a special audience is plausible in view of internal, textual, and historical evidence.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.