The "General Prologue."

Author / Editor
Justice, Steven.

Title
The "General Prologue."

Published
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 45-58.

Description
Surveys approaches to reception and interpretation of GP. Reappraises GP’s incompleteness as a symbol for the incompleteness of memory, establishing the beginning of CT as a kind of machinery that "set[s] the roadside drama in motion once again."

Alternative Title
Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales