Perkyn Revelour and the 'Cook's Tale'

Author / Editor
Scattergood, V. J.

Title
Perkyn Revelour and the 'Cook's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 19 (1984): 14-23.

Description
The protagonist of CkT has antecedents, from both society and literature, that permit one to extrapolate details the Cook might have used: trickery, age, and criticism of contemporary mores.
Reprinted in Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Four Courts, 1996), pp. 183-91.

Alternative Title
Reading the Past: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Cook and His Tale.