Chaucer's Little Lotteries: The Literary Use of a Medieval Game
- Author / Editor
- Olmert, Michael.
Chaucer's Little Lotteries: The Literary Use of a Medieval Game
- Published
- Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature 2:1 (1984): 171-82.
- Description
- Briefly surveys the practice of drawing lots in ancient history, the Bible, medieval literature, and Chaucer's works, focusing on the GP "lottery" to select who will tell the first tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales