Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and the Failure of Allegory
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Jamie.
Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and the Failure of Allegory
- Published
- Exemplaria 21 (2009): 83-101.
- Description
- Considers Mel as an allegory of translation, proposing that Chaucer applies legal theory drawn from Henry de Bracton's "De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae" to questions of ownership. In MelP, Chaucer uses "thyng" as a legal term pertaining to an author's use or ownership of an allegory.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Language and Word Studies