Originality, Controlling Purpose, and Craftsmanship in Chaucer's "Man of Law’s Tale."

Author/Editor
Block, Edward A.

Title
Originality, Controlling Purpose, and Craftsmanship in Chaucer's "Man of Law’s Tale."

Published
Block, Edward A. “Originality, Controlling Purpose, and Craftsmanship in Chaucer’s ‘Man of Law’s Tale’.” PMLA 68 (1953): 572-616.

Review
Primarily a study of how closely Chaucer follows Trivet, but also notes that Chaucer borrowed from Gower, although not much. [RFY1981]

Date
1953

Gower Subjects
Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations