Chaucer's Devilish Reeve
- Author / Editor
- Ellis, Deborah S.
Chaucer's Devilish Reeve
- Published
- Chaucer Review 27 (1992): 150-61.
- Description
- Both in the GP portrait of the Reeve and in RvPT, Chaucer draws on medieval devil iconography and folklore, deepening the sinister character of this pilgrim and helping to explain his particular hair style, his thinness, his home in the North, and his position in the Canterbury group.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.