Signs and Circumstances: A Study of Allegory in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Hughes, Alan.
Signs and Circumstances: A Study of Allegory in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Pentrefoelas, Wales: AlaNia, 2003.
- Physical Description
- x, 160 pp.
- Description
- Hughes reads CT as an allegorical political critique of the reign of Richard II. The GP descriptions allegorically represent aspects of Richard's personality or persons in his court. Each of the individual tales comments on specific political events and/or pervasive social conditions. The book also discusses political allegory in Scog and Buk.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales-General.
- Envoy to Bukton.
- Envoy to Scogan.