Meretricious Mixtures: Gold, Dung, and the 'Canon's Yeoman's Prologue' and 'Tale'

Author / Editor
Calabrese, Michael A.

Title
Meretricious Mixtures: Gold, Dung, and the 'Canon's Yeoman's Prologue' and 'Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 277-92.

Description
The fourteenth-century "Antiovidianus," a satire on Ovidian art, provides a convenient way to view Chaucer's CYPT. The works share chemical, theological, and scatological imagery,illuminating Chaucer's constant exploration of the "tension between art and morality."

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.