The April Date as a Structural Device in "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Wood, Chauncey.

Title
The April Date as a Structural Device in "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 25 (1964): 259-71.

Description
Argues that the astrological data in GP and MLH establish the date of the beginning of the Canterbury pilgrimage as April 17, the same day as the departure of Noah's ark, evoking notions of sinfulness and salvific baptism, reinforced by imagery of springtime, echoed in the Flood imagery of MilT, and brought to fulfillment in the pilgrimage imagery of ParsPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Man of Law and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Parson and His Tale.