Text and Context: Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale'

Author / Editor
Hahn, Thomas,and Richard W. Kaeuper.

Title
Text and Context: Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale'

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 5 (1983): 67-101.

Description
FrT reflects hostility, especially among the lower classes, against widespread corruption and double standards among archdeacons and summoners, as surviving documents of the period amply and graphically suggest.

Contributor
Kaeuper, Richard W.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale.