Notes on the Canterbury Tales (3)

Author / Editor
Prins, A. A.

Title
Notes on the Canterbury Tales (3)

Published
English Studies 35 (1954): 158-62.

Description
Explores nuances of "tregetour" in FranT 5.1141 and 1143; HF 1260 and 1277, arguing that their magic would have been understood by Chaucer and his original audience to entail illusion rather than mechanical contrivance or sleight of hand.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Franklin and His Tale
House of Fame