'Why Artow Angry': The Malice of Chaucer's Reeve
- Author / Editor
- Arthur, Ross G.
'Why Artow Angry': The Malice of Chaucer's Reeve
- Published
- English Studies in Canada 13 (1987): 1-11.
- Description
- Treats the relationship of the Reeve to the Miller. Comparison of RvT with Boccaccio's "Decameron" and other analogues, including the status and character of their narrators, reveals the Reeve's essential meanness: his identification with the opportunism of the clerks, his vengeful spirit, and his disregard for human integrity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.