Why the Devil Wears Green.

Author / Editor
Robertson, D. W., Jr.

Title
Why the Devil Wears Green.

Published
Modern Language Notes 69 (1954): 470-72.

Description
Suggests that Pierre Bersuire's account--"or one like it"--of a hunter-devil dressed in green may account for Chaucer's similar description in FrT 3.1382ff.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations