Chaucer's Use of the Theme of the Help of God in the 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Farrell, Robert T.

Title
Chaucer's Use of the Theme of the Help of God in the 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 71 (1970): 239-44.

Description
Contends that Chaucer introduced into the plot of MLT (2.463-504) the motif of the help of God, helping to explain Constance's survival at sea at the beginning of Part 2 of the Tale; the motif is not found in Nicholas Trevet at this juncture.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations