The Tale and Its Teller: The Case of Chaucer's Man of Law

Author / Editor
Harty, Kevin J.

Title
The Tale and Its Teller: The Case of Chaucer's Man of Law

Published
American Benedictine Review 34 (1983): 361-71.

Description
From KnT to CkT, tales degenerate from magnificence to grossness. MLT attempts to establish decorum but backfires on the teller, who "courts the sin of presumption."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and his Tale.