Telling Tales.
- Author / Editor
- Kooper, Erik.
Telling Tales.
- Published
- Maarten De Pourcq and Sophie Levie, eds. European Literary History (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 128-38.
- Description
- Introduces Chaucer's life and works, emphasizing CT and its innovations of social tension and variety as reflections of changes in English society during Chaucer's lifetime. Also comments on the fragmentary nature of CT, compares the work with Boccacio’s "Decameron," and summarizes its early reputation as evident in its manuscript history. Quotes most of MilP (in David Wright’s verse translation of 1985), and includes a reproduction of the Ellesmere manuscript, fol. 34v, the opening of MilT.
- Contributor
- De Pourcq, Maarten, ed.
Levie, Sophie, ed.
- Alternative Title
- European Literary History.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Miller and His Tale