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Of Sondry Folk: The Dramatic Principle in the Canterbury Tales

Of Sondry Folk: The Dramatic Principle in the Canterbury Tales

Lumiansky, R. M.

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0292760175
ISBN13: 9780292760172
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Jan 1 1955
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Two hundred years before Shakespeare observed that all the world's a stage, another writer with a flair for drama realized the same fact. This writer was Geoffrey Chaucer.

Chaucer, however, presented his dramatic efforts through the medium of short stories, and he is regularly referred to as one of the world's great storytellers. Yet there are certain questions which arise time and again in the minds of literary scholars. Most of the tales in the Canterbury collection are excellent, but why did Chaucer include such obviously poor recitals as the dull Melibeus and the lengthy Parson's Tale? Did he fail to recognize their lack of literary merit? Or were those of his stories which seem so dull to modern readers really popular in fourteenth-century England?

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