Chaucer at Work: The Making of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Peter.
Chaucer at Work: The Making of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- London and New York: Longman, 1994.
- Physical Description
- xii, 186 pp.
- Description
- An "interactive" introduction to CT designed for classroom use. Provides for GP and select tales contextual materials from sources and analogues, rhetorical and visual traditions, and contemporary resources, guiding students in their considerations of how Chaucer adapted or responded to such materials.
- For GP, Brown focuses on pilgrimage, the Parson and the Pardoner, the Host and the narrator; for KnT, Boccaccio's "Teseida" and the imagery of Saturn and imprisonment; for MilT, rhetorical "effictio" and the Noah mystery plays; for WBPT, antifeminism and "gentilesse"; for MerT, the iconography of the seasons and gardens; for FranT, patience and imagery of hell; for PardPT, the "sins of the mouth" and gambling; and for NPT, rhetorical tradition and imagery of the Fall.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.