'The Friar's Tale' as a Liminal Tale

Author / Editor
Bloomfield, Morton W.

Title
'The Friar's Tale' as a Liminal Tale

Published
Chaucer Review 17 (1983): 286-91.

Description
Folklorists describe liminal tales as experiences that are part of a rite of passage from one realm of experience to another. Viewed thus, FrT assumes new complexities: it reflects the total pilgrimage experience of CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale.