Perkyn Revelour and the 'Cook's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Scattergood, V. J.
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.