Following the Leaf Through Part of Dryden's 'Fables'

Author / Editor
Gelineau, David.

Title
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