Roasting a Friar, Mis-taking a Wife, and Other Acts of Textual Harassment in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Hanning, Robert W.
Roasting a Friar, Mis-taking a Wife, and Other Acts of Textual Harassment in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 3-21.
- Description
- Chaucer's pilgrims misquote or distort received texts to further their own interests. In SumT and WBP, Chaucer turns two experts in "glosinge" into "human texts" to satirize Friar John and to expose the limited options of the Wife in dealing with established stereotypes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Summoner and His Tale.