Opening "The Canterbury Tales": Forms and Formalism in the "General Prologue."
- Author / Editor
- Trigg, Stephanie.
Opening "The Canterbury Tales": Forms and Formalism in the "General Prologue."
- Published
- In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 182-99.
- Description
- Considers the "history of staging readers' first encounters with the opening lines" of CT from manuscript to modern print editions, emphasizing the "material form" of GP in "The Riverside Chaucer." Explores the tension between "the formal qualities of 'prologueness' " in GP and the degree to which its textual form is historically situated.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Subversion of Form.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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