Chaucer's Influence on Henryson's 'Fables': The Use of Proverbs and Sententiae
- Author / Editor
- MacDonald, Donald.
Chaucer's Influence on Henryson's 'Fables': The Use of Proverbs and Sententiae
- Published
- Medium Aevum 39 (1970): 21-27.
- Description
- Identifies three aspects of Robert Henryson's uses of proverbial wisdom in his "Fables," locating precedent for each of them in a work by Chaucer: use of proverbs by fable characters (NPT), comic misapplication of proverbial wisdom (MilT), and clustering proverbial sayings (Pandarus in TC).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Style and Versification
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Miller and His Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde