Chaucer's Counterfeit 'Exempla'
- Author / Editor
- O'Connell, Brendan.
Chaucer's Counterfeit 'Exempla'
- Published
- Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack, eds. Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), pp. 134-57.
- Description
- Notes that counterfeit and forged documents appear frequently in CT, but most frequently in exemplary and ethical tales such as MLT and ClT. This suggests Chaucer's lack of trust in this kind of writing and his preference for an ethics based on imperfect, lived experience.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Clerk and His Tale