'Lat the Children Pleye': The Game Betwixt the Ages in The Reeve's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Fein, Susanna Greer.
'Lat the Children Pleye': The Game Betwixt the Ages in The Reeve's Tale
- Published
- Susanna Greer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds. Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 29 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991), pp. 73-104.
- Description
- Chaucer utilizes the medieval icons of the wheel, the stream, and the vessel to represent the life cycle, the passing of time, and an individual's "fluid allocation of vital spirits that gradually dries from cradle to grave." In RvP, the Reeve's "process of maturation has diverged from the natural course," while in RvT birth, aging, and death constitute a cycle of mutability of which the participants are unaware.
- Alternative Title
- Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in the Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.