Chaucer's Manciple's Tale and the Poetics of Guile
- Author / Editor
- Grudin, Michaela Paasche.
Chaucer's Manciple's Tale and the Poetics of Guile
- Published
- Chaucer Review 25 (1991): 329-42.
- Description
- ManT examines the kind of language by which a poet can survive. Given the historical context of Richard II's reign and the contemporary chronicle literature that warned of the necessity of suppressing one's speech, the individual must resort to guile in order to talk at all. Realizing that society "requires a language of poetry roughly attuned to its nature," the poet must learn to temper truth with delight, conveying passion without "threat."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.