Death and Staleness in the 'Son-Less' World of the 'Summoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Allen, David G.
Death and Staleness in the 'Son-Less' World of the 'Summoner's Tale'
- Published
- Studies in Short Fiction 24 (1987): 1-8.
- Description
- In SumT 1851-53, the Friar smoothly transforms the mother's concern for her own dead child into his own self-aggrandizement. Hints of the son's death appear throughout SumT to reinforce the Friar's failure with Thomas.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.