The Theme of Judgment in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Delasanta, Rodney.
The Theme of Judgment in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 31 (1970): 298-307.
- Description
- Presents the Host as the figure of Judge in CT and identifies the judgment imagery in ParsP and elsewhere in CT, along with its Biblical and iconographical roots. This theme of judgment anticipates the concern with penance in ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Parson and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations