Mrs. Bullfrog | Literary Precedents
Probably the most important precedent relative to "Mrs. Bullfrog" and the other marriage tales of Hawthorne is Geoffrey Chaucer's collection, found in his Canterbury Tales (late 1380s-1390s). According to F. N. Robinson's text, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 2d ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961), there are seven tales, not completely connected but constituting a series that apparently was prepared in a kind of final form by Chaucer. These were labeled "The Marriage Group" by Professor George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard, who called attention to this series' sequential...
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