Pilgrimage: Chaucer's Ernest Game

Author / Editor
Rhodes, James Francis.

Title
Pilgrimage: Chaucer's Ernest Game

Published
DAI 35.03 (1974): 1669A.

Description
Suggests that Chaucer "creates a literary imitation of a real pilgrimage" in CT, exploring the extent to which this enables him to accommodate the sacred and social, a version of the medieval "earnest and game" topos. Focuses on WBPT and PardPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Pardoner and His Tale