Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Gray, Douglas.
Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature.
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Physical Description
- viii, 267 pp.
- Description
- Examines how the "lost culture" of oral literary and folk and popular traditions of the Middle Ages influenced medieval writers. Mentions Chaucer's understanding of proverbs and oral and folk culture in ClT, WBT, MLT, FranT, and TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Man of Law and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale