'To Parte That Wol Nat Departed Be': A Plot-Analysis of the Summoner's Tale and Its Analogues

Author / Editor
Hertog, Erik.

Title
'To Parte That Wol Nat Departed Be': A Plot-Analysis of the Summoner's Tale and Its Analogues

Published
Erik Kooper, ed. This Noble Craft . . .: Proceedings of the Xth Research Symposium of Dutch and Belgian University Teachers of Old and Middle English and Historical Linguistics, Utrecht, 19-20 January, 1989. Costerus New Series, no. 80 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), pp. 200-21.

Description
Based on Roland Barthes's work on the structural analysis of narrative texts, this essay assesses SumT and two analogues. Hertog describes a model for the recognition of similar events in fiction.

Alternative Title
This Noble Craft

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale.