Whan that "May?" Chaucer’s Breaking with Convention in the Opening Lines of the "Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Cawsey, Kathy.
Whan that "May?" Chaucer’s Breaking with Convention in the Opening Lines of the "Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Explicator 78, no. 2 (2020): 75-79.
- Description
- Explores why Chaucer sets CT in April, rather than the traditional month of May, and concludes that the disruption of expectations leads the reader to reflect and realize the tales are a mix of the secular and the sacred.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General