The 'General Prologue' as Prologue

Author / Editor
Moseley, Charles.

Title
The 'General Prologue' as Prologue

Published
Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 105-18.

Description
Surveys the narrative techniques of the GP as they set up and anticipate those of the entire CT: the suggestiveness of pilgrimage and frame narrative, the impressionistic variety of the pilgrims and their juxtapositions, the naìˆve but subjective narrative persona and his reliance on memory, the emphasis on chance, disorderliness, and varieties of love.

Alternative Title
Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales--General