The Generation Gap in The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Dauby, Hélène.
The Generation Gap in The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 237-41.
- Description
- Most of the pilgrims seem to be about the same age, but the problem of age is not ignored: e.g., old and young husbands (WBPT); the relationship between father and son (Knight and Squire, Franklin, Chauntecleer) or daughter (RvT); and the relationship between parents and children (CIT, MLT). Comparisons with Molière set off Chaucer's attitude.
- Alternative Title
- Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales-General.