Doubling and the Thopas-Melibee Link
- Author / Editor
- Fyler, John M.
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