Meretricious Mixtures: Gold, Dung, and the 'Canon's Yeoman's Prologue' and 'Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Calabrese, Michael A.
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.