An Old French Analogue to General Prologue 1-18.
- Author / Editor
- Rea, John A.
An Old French Analogue to General Prologue 1-18.
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 46 (1967): 128-30.
- Description
- Offers the "tempting hypothesis" that Adenet le Roi's "Berte aud Grans Pies" is a source of the "coincidence of . . . three motifs" in GP ("pilgrimage, spring, framing device"); also observes several "interesting verbal similarities" between the two.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations