The Wife's Dead Child and Friar John: Parallels and Oppositions in the Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Finnegan, Robert Emmett.
The Wife's Dead Child and Friar John: Parallels and Oppositions in the Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 92 (1991): 457-62.
- Description
- Textual evidence suggests that the friar may be the father of the dead child--rendering the squire Jankyn (little John, the diminutive of the friar) the projection of the central character's sinfully fathered child.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.