The Manciple's Servant Tongue: Politics and Poetry in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Fradenburg, Louise (O).
The Manciple's Servant Tongue: Politics and Poetry in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- ELH 52 (1985): 85-118.
- Description
- ManP and ManT reveal, through Lacanian insights, Chaucer's position as court poet. The Manciple's silencing of the Cook prefigures the tale in which the regal Phebus, who cages both his free-spirited wife and the truth-telling crow, kills and mutilates--as myth modulates to courtly tale to fabliau.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.