Authorial Work

Author / Editor
Robertson, Kellie.

Title
Authorial Work

Published
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 441-58.

Description
Robertson explores effects of the English labor laws of 1349 on attitudes toward writing, surveying reactions by various writers and using Chaucer's GP "as a lens through which to view the critical stakes in thinking about" work--particularly the tension between labor and leisure.

Alternative Title
Middle English (Strohm)

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.