Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee': Its Tradition and Its Function in Fragment VII of the 'CanterburyTales'
- Author / Editor
- Christmas, Robert Alan.
Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee': Its Tradition and Its Function in Fragment VII of the 'CanterburyTales'
- Published
- DAI 29.09 (1969): 3093A.
- Description
- Treats Mel as a "consolatio," not an allegory, of the same genre as Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "designed to cure an excess of wrath" and to promote "forgiveness." Identifies ways that Mel engages thematically with the other tales in Part 7 of CT, particularly Tho, but also PrT, ShT, and NPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Shipman and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale