'And for pleye as he was wont to do': Chaucer's Games in The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Melnarik, Tim George.

Title
'And for pleye as he was wont to do': Chaucer's Games in The Canterbury Tales

Published
DAI 63: 2537A. , 2003.

Description
Examines CT structurally in the context of the fourteenth-century popular view of games and gaming. Also deals with the rules of CT, its game in action, violations of the rules, and Chaucer himself as the game's most important piece.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales-General.