'Ysworn . . . withoute gilt': Lais of Illusion. Making Language in the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Scala, Elizabeth.
'Ysworn . . . withoute gilt': Lais of Illusion. Making Language in the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Claire Vial, ed. 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays (2014): n.p. (web publication).
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's interest in Breton lays rests on the genre's association with magic and language. WBT has features of a Breton lay, but is not marked as such; FranT, even though it has its sources in the Italian novelle, is marked as a Breton lay.
- Alternative Title
- 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations