The Theme of Judgment in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Delasanta, Rodney.

Title
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