Doubling and the Thopas-Melibee Link

Author / Editor
Fyler, John M.

Title
Doubling and the Thopas-Melibee Link

Published
John M. Hill, Bonnie Wheeler, and R. F. Yeager, eds. Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014), pp. 129-41.

Description
Examines plot and language repetition and "doublings" in CT. Focuses on irony and ambiguity in Th-MelL and claims that both tales have an "identical sentence" and are "the same story told twice. Also discusses MkT, NPT, and PrT.

Alternative Title
Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Tale of Sir Thopas
Tale of Melibee
Monk and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale