Saint Cecilia's "Chemical Wedding": The Unity of the "Canterbury Tales," Fragment VIII.
- Author / Editor
- Grennen, Joseph E.
Saint Cecilia's "Chemical Wedding": The Unity of the "Canterbury Tales," Fragment VIII.
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 65 (1966): 466-81.
- Description
- Demonstrates the "relationship in theme and imagery" between SNPT and CYPT and the "controlling design that links them artistically." Posits that SNT may have been based on a Gnostic version of the Cecilia legend, an alchemical allegory of the "chemical wedding," helping to account for the parallels and inversions between the two Tales: concern with work and busyness, unity and multiplicity, the imagery of fire, stones, and blindness, and such "orthodox religious ideals such as zeal and perseverance."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale