Religious Elements in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Yunck, John A.
Religious Elements in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale."
- Published
- ELH 27 (1960): 249-61.
- Description
- Compares Chaucer's heroine in MLT with her predecessor in Trevet, arguing that Custance's passivity, her prayers, and her divinely-aided escape from the "renegade knight" combine with other religious features of the tale to make it "a romantic homily on the virtues of complete submission to divine providence, worked out against the harshest vicissitudes which folktale could provide."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations