Of Sondry Folk : : The Dramatic Principle in the Canterbury Tales / / R. M. Lumiansky.
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 o...
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