Proverb Tradition as a Soft Source for the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Bradbury, Nancy Mason.

Title
Proverb Tradition as a Soft Source for the Canterbury Tales

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 237-42.

Description
Bradbury addresses Chaucer's uses of proverbs as a "crucial" form of "quoting behavior"--a form of "soft source" important to Chaucer's art and its reception in manuscripts and early editions. Draws examples from KnT and refers to uses of proverbs in other Tales.

Alternative Title
Colloquium: The Afterlife of Origins

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Knight and His Tale.