The Canterbury Tales and London Club Culture
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
The Canterbury Tales and London Club Culture
- Published
- Ardis Butterfield, ed. Chaucer and the City (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 95-108.
- Description
- Argues that a substantial turn away from the topic of idealized love in Chaucer's writing after 1387 demonstrates a shift in his real and imagined audiences. In the second half of his career, Chaucer's audience may have been an almost exclusively male "Chaucer circle" whose tastes differed from earlier, court audiences.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the City.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.