A Reading of the Canterbury Tales.
- Author/Editor
- Whittock, Trevor.
- Title
- A Reading of the Canterbury Tales.
- Published
- Whittock, Trevor. A Reading of the Canterbury Tales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968, pp. 106, 110-16, 285n
- Review
- Compares Chaucer's “Man of Law's Tale” with Gower's Tale of Constance in CA, Book II, 587ff., which Whittock finds “flat and dull” by comparison even though it “fairly successfully fuse[s] pathetic realism with credulous acceptance of improbabilities”; the tones of the narratives differ. [RFY1981; rev. MA]
- Date
- 1968
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification