The Reeve's Rusty Blade

Author / Editor
Moore, Bruce.

Title
The Reeve's Rusty Blade

Published
Medium Aevum 58 (1989): 304-12.

Description
Suggests that the use of "rusty" in GP 618 foreshadows the moral criticism of the Reeve as corrupt, envious, and rancorous.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.