Pre-empting Closure in 'The Canterbury Tales': Old Endings, New Beginnings

Author / Editor
Pearsall, Derek.

Title
Pre-empting Closure in 'The Canterbury Tales': Old Endings, New Beginnings

Published
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 23-38.

Description
Addresses issues of the order of CT and, following the discussion of Charles A. Owen, Jr. (1977), argues that ParsT was once intended to complete the work. However, Chaucer revised his plan when he "evolved a new and impossibly grandiose scheme for the 'Tales'."

Alternative Title
Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Parson and His Tale.