Chaucer, the Man of Law's Introduction and Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Bowen, Robert O.
Chaucer, the Man of Law's Introduction and Tale.
- Published
- Modern Language Notes 71.3 (1956): 165.
- Description
- Suggests that Chaucer's dismissive reference to incest in MLP 77ff. alludes not to Gower's "Confessio Amantis" but to his own hesitation in writing a version of the "well known folk tale of the Incestuous Father," hesitating "on grounds of taste to write a religious tale in which incest was an essential element of the plot."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations