Chaucer's Tellers and Tales and the Design of the "Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Morgan, Gerald.

Title
Chaucer's Tellers and Tales and the Design of the "Canterbury Tales."

Published
In Nicolas Jacobs and Gerald Morgan, eds. "Truth is the beste": A Festschrift in Honour of A. V. C. Schmidt (New York: Lang, 2014), pp. 137-68.

Description
Reviews the "extreme implausibility" of attributing the art of individual tales in CT to the pilgrim-narrators, and argues that the "ideas and arguments" of the tales belong to Chaucer. Also reviews the sequential order of the tales as found in the Ellesmere manuscript, and compares the narrative art of CT favorably with that of TC, commenting on Boccaccio and Dante as Chaucer's models.

Alternative Title
Truth is the Beste.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations