The Man of Law's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Coghill, Nevill, and Christopher Tolkien, eds.
The Man of Law's Tale.
- Published
- London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1969.
- Physical Description
- 176 pp.
- Series
- Harrap's English Classics.
- Description
- A textbook edition of MLPT in Middle English, with an introduction and end-of-text notes and glossary; includes the GP description of the Sergeant of Law. The Introduction (pp. 7-57) assesses various "puzzling features" of MLP, its place in Chaucer's career, and its relations with Pope Innocent's "De Contemptu Mundi." The Introduction also considers the relations of MLT with Nicholas Trevet's "Chronicle" (prose summary provided) and describes the themes, characterization, and "scholarly opinion" of the work.
- Contributor
- Tolkien, Christopher, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
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