The 'Reeve's Tale', Symkyn, and Simon the Magician
- Author / Editor
- Herzman, Ronald B.
The 'Reeve's Tale', Symkyn, and Simon the Magician
- Published
- American Benedictine Review 33 (1982): 325-33.
- Description
- Symkyn's name is diminutive of Simon and thus calls up the story of Simon the Magician as found in the Acts of Peter. In a larger sense the rise and inevitable fall of pride that is the tales structural skeleton gains resonance when placed against the fate of the archetypal Simon.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.