Chaucer's Digressive Mode and the Moral of the 'Manciple's Tale'

Author / Editor
Diekstra, F. N. M.

Title
Chaucer's Digressive Mode and the Moral of the 'Manciple's Tale'

Published
Neophilologus 67 (1983): 131-48.

Description
Chaucer has adapted "ironic hints" from the analogue in Machaut's "Voir dit" to a bourgeois persona that demolishes "finer sensibilities," thus ironically reversing the tenor of the older material.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.