Tradition and Innovation in the Prologues of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Bekus, Albert J.

Title
Tradition and Innovation in the Prologues of Chaucer

Published
DAI 33.09 (1973): 1232A.

Description
Contends that Chaucer uses and supersedes the conventions of the classical "exordium" and of medieval prologues in HF, the proems of TC, LGWP, and GP.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales