'Lat be thyne olde ensaumples' : Chaucer and Proverbs
- Author / Editor
- Gray, Douglas.
'Lat be thyne olde ensaumples' : Chaucer and Proverbs
- Published
- Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney, eds. Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 122-36.
- Description
- Gray comments on the cultural value and functions of proverbs and their kin (adages, aphorisms, etc.), focusing on two "clusters" of proverbs: the "proverb war" of WBP and the complex and intricate uses of proverbs by Pandarus, Criseyde, and the narrator in TC.
- Alternative Title
- Interstices: Studies in Late Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Wife of Bath and her Tale.