Confessional Prologue and the Topography of the Canon's Yeoman

Author / Editor
McCracken, Samuel

Title
Confessional Prologue and the Topography of the Canon's Yeoman

Published
Modern Philology 68 (1971): 289-91.

Description
Identifies a tripartite pattern in several of the Canterbury narratives (introduction, confessional prologue, and tale), applying it to CYPT. Comparisons with WBPT, MerPT, and PardPT illuminate the structure of CYPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale