Chaucer and Medieval Allegory.

Author / Editor
Kaske, R. E.

Title
Chaucer and Medieval Allegory.

Published
ELH 30 (1963): 175-92.

Description
Reviews D. W. Robertson's "A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives" (1962), providing a brief survey of the "prevailing criticism" that challenges the exegetical, patristic, or historicist criticism that Robertson champions, and identifying several critical presuppositions that suggest Robertson's method is too universalized. Includes extended examples of analysis of literary realism in WBP (1-162), "conscience" in the GP description of the Prioress, and the psychological subtlety of Chaucer's characterization of Criseyde in TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Troilus and Criseyde
Language and Word Studies