Some Uses of Physiognomical Lore in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Wurtele, Douglas (J.)

Title
Some Uses of Physiognomical Lore in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Chaucer Review 17 (1982): 130-41.

Description
Studies physiognomy as a mode of popular wisdom, rather than superficial characterization in the portraits of the Miller, Reeve, and Pardoner.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Miller and His Tale.
Reeve and His Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.