Shakespeare's Pub: A Barstool History of London as Seen Through the Windows of Its Oldest Pub--The George Inn.
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Pete.
Shakespeare's Pub: A Barstool History of London as Seen Through the Windows of Its Oldest Pub--The George Inn.
- Published
- New York: St, Martin's, 2012.
- Physical Description
- [xv], 352 pp.; b&w figs.
- Description
- A popular history of the George Inn, Southwark, located next to where the Tabard once stood. Includes various references to the Tabard Inn in history and in CT, and includes a chapter called "The Poet’s Tale, Or, How English Literature Was Born in a Southwark Inn" (pp/ 99-117), with comments on what CT and the prologue to the "Tale of Beryn" disclose about drinking establishments of Chaucer's time, including differences between an inn and an alehouse. Also comments on different attitudes toward drinking in CT and in "Piers Plowman."
- Alternative Title
- The Poet’s Tale, Or, How English Literature Was Born in a Southwark Inn.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Chaucerian Apocrypha