The Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Norman, Arthur.
The Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- E. Bagby Atwood and Archibald A. Hill, eds. Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later (Austin: University of Texas, 1969), pp. 312-23.
- Description
- Describes the episodic symmetrical structure of MLT; comments on the characterization of Constance; identifies the rhetorical uses of occupatio and elaboration in the Tale; and (in footnote 1) summarizes its concern with astrology, fate, and Boethian determinism.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Style and Versification