Opening "The Canterbury Tales": Forms and Formalism in the "General Prologue."

Author / Editor
Trigg, Stephanie.

Title
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
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations