Following the Leaf Through Part of Dryden's 'Fables'
- Author / Editor
- Gelineau, David.
Following the Leaf Through Part of Dryden's 'Fables'
- Published
- SEL: Studies in English Literature 50 (2010): 557-81.
- Description
- Arguing that the sequence of tales in Dryden's "Fables" is significant and meaningful, Gelineau examines a sequence of tales in which Dryden "uses the Chaucerian tales, with their Catholic love of order, to frame his critique of military brutality and to epitomize everything that [King] William has come to reject." The sequence opens with the pseudo-Chaucerian "Flower and the Leaf" and closes with Dryden's version of WBT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Chaucerian Apocrypha