Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ121423

Geoffrey Chaucer, Iconography in the Prologue to Canterbury Tales

Authors(1) :-Dr. Manju Srivastava

Opening with the description of the month of April, The Prologue to Canterbury Tales introduces the frame story in which the pilgrims agree to tell two tales on way to Canterbury and two on way back. Belonging to diverse professions, they are thirty in number including the narrator and represent all types and shades of 14th century society except the highest and the lowest. He has brought them together for the holy pilgrimage. While portraying them, Chaucer has shown his minute observation, telling about their idiosyncrasies, features, habits, clothes and the traits typical to the class. It is his art of characterization, his accuracy in description of things and people, delicacy of perception, insight, he creates the living human characters, the real ones as they were in Chaucer's day.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Manju Srivastava
Associate Professor, Department of English, D.A.V. College, Kanpur, India

Iconography, portraiture, characterization, corruption.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 1 | January-February 2021
Date of Publication : 2021-02-28
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 252-257
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ121423
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

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Dr. Manju Srivastava, "Geoffrey Chaucer, Iconography in the Prologue to Canterbury Tales ", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp.252-257, January-February.2021
URL : https://shisrrj.com/SHISRRJ121423

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