Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales": The Position of Fragment VII.

Author / Editor
Al-Ibia, Salim E.

Title
Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales": The Position of Fragment VII.

Published
Studies in Language and Literature (Montreal) 11.1 (2015): 57-61.

Description
Supports the so-called "Bradshaw Shift" that recommends moving fragment VII of CT to a position just after fragment II, arguing that the move better enhances the "thematic relationship among" ShT, and the fabliaux of fragment I, MilT, and RvT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Shipman and His Tale