Sentence and Solaas in Fragment VII of the "Canterbury Tales": Harry Bailly as Horseback Editor.

Author / Editor
Gaylord, Alan T.

Title
Sentence and Solaas in Fragment VII of the "Canterbury Tales": Harry Bailly as Horseback Editor.

Published
PMLA 82 (1967): 226-35.

Description
Concentrates on the links between the Tales in Part 7 of CT, arguing that this "Literature Group" is concerned primarily with the "art of storytelling," particularly the responsibilities of audience and author as dramatized in the directions and reactions of the Host to the Tales and their tellers. Includes sustained attention to Chaucer as artist and as tale-teller, the Host as "editor and judge," and the paired concerns of "sentence" and "solaas" established in GP and assessed in Rom.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Shipman and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Tale of Sir Thopas
Tale of Melibee
Monk and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Romaunt of the Rose