The Framework of the Canterbury Tales.

Author/Editor
Clawson, W. H.

Title
The Framework of the Canterbury Tales.

Published
Clawson, W. H. "The Framework of the Canterbury Tales." University of Toronto Quarterly 20 (1951): 137-54. Reprinted in "Chaucer: Modern Essays in Criticism." Edited by Edward Wagenknecht. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959, pp 3-22.

Review
Associates CA as a type with "The Fables of Bidpai" and the "Disciplina Clericalis," as a poem with a moral, a framework, and illustrative tales. [RFY1981].

Date
1951

Gower Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Confessio Amantis
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification