The Devil and His Panne: 'Friar's Tale' D 1614

Author / Editor
Hahn, Thomas.

Title
The Devil and His Panne: 'Friar's Tale' D 1614

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 86 (1985): 348-52.

Description
"Panne" in Chaucer's day sometimes designated a piece of clothing, sometimes a cooking utensil--and popular tradition associated the devil in hell with "pannes" (cooking utensils) and cauldrons. Chaucer's early audiences would have recognized in FrT 1614 multiple meanings for "panne."

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale.