Chaucerian Style in 'The Unicorn's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Kratzmann, G. C.
Chaucerian Style in 'The Unicorn's Tale'
- Published
- Scottish Literary Journal 5.1 (1978): 17-22.
- Description
- Assesses Chaucer's influence on "The Unicorn's Tale," found in the early-sixteenth-century Asloan MS and adapted from Nigel of Longchamp's "Speculum Stultorum" which Chaucer alludes to in NPT 7.3312-16. Focuses on verbal echoes from Chaucer's NPT and GP, on Chaucerian meter and setting, and a "distinctly Chaucerian style of irony" found in "The Unicorn's Tale."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion