'A compaignye of sondry folk': The Structure of Chaucer's 'General Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Norgate, Paul.
'A compaignye of sondry folk': The Structure of Chaucer's 'General Prologue'
- Published
- Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 9-17.
- Description
- Interprets the interplay of literal and symbolic implications in GP, reading pilgrimage as a "metaphor for a society in the act of 'being itself'." The poem "declares its intention to deal less with what 'should be' in society than what is actually 'going on'." Significant attention to how the description of the Knight in GP sets up and challenges readers' expectations.
- Alternative Title
- Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Knight and His Tale