The Man of Law's Tale

Author / Editor
Norman, Arthur.

Title
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