Tit for Tat: The Canterbury Tales and The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy

Author / Editor
Higgins, Iain Macleod.

Title
Tit for Tat: The Canterbury Tales and The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy

Published
Exemplaria 16 (2004): 165-202

Description
Higgins explores the "incidental affiliations" between CT and "The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy," demonstrating how flyting tradition informs CT, especially Part 1 and the debate between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk. The tale-telling contest is related both to flyting and to the debate tradition of "Wynnere and Wastoure."

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.