Wit and Witsunday in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Clark, Roy Peter
Wit and Witsunday in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 17 (1976): 48-57.
- Description
- Developing from the Pentecostal parody in the poem, Chaucer's use of the word "wit" in SumT 1789, 2291 may suggest a submerged allusion to the contemporary controversy surrounding the Wycliffite translation of the Bible.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.