'The Friar's Tale' Reconsidered
- Author / Editor
- Bela, Teresa.
'The Friar's Tale' Reconsidered
- Published
- Jan Nowakowski, ed. Litterae et Lingua: In Honorem Premislavi Mroczkowski (Wroclaw: Pol. Akad. Nauk, 1984), pp. 51-55.
- Description
- FrT is a tale warning Chaucer's audience about the stupidity of sin. The Friar tells a story of a foolish summoner who gives in to at least three of the deadly sins. Stupidity, not wickedness, leads the Summoner to hell.
- Contributor
- Nowakowski, Jan,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Litterae et Lingua: In Honorem Premislavi Mroczkowski.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.