The Dramatic Suitability of "The Man of Law's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Hamilton, Marie P.
The Dramatic Suitability of "The Man of Law's Tale."
- Published
- Mieczyslaw Brahmer, Stanislaw Helsztynski, and Julian Krzyzanowski, eds. Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch (Warsaw: PWN—Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966), pp. 153-63.
- Description
- Studies the "fitness" of MLT to Chaucer's teller, surveying critical commentary, considering sources and analogues, assessing the historicity of legal details in the Tale, and suggesting that the trial scene evinces Chaucer's knowledge of "Anglo-Saxon judicial practice."
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations