False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Allen, Elizabeth.
False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature
- Published
- New York : Palgrave, 2005.
- Physical Description
- viii, 225 pp.
- Description
- Explores issues of exemplarity and applicability in examples of Middle English literature--"Book of the Knight of the Tower," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," Henryson's "Testment of Cresseid," and CT and TC. Chaucerian topics include the function of the frame in ClT; history, fiction, and exemplarity in PhyT; Northumberland MS 455 and how the Canterbury Interlude (Tale of Beryn) reflects fifteenth-century audience reaction to PardT; and Criseyde's multivalent exemplarity in TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.