'The Friar's Tale' Reconsidered

Author / Editor
Bela, Teresa.

Title
'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.