No Vileyns Word': Social Context and Performance in Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Leicester, H. Marshall,Jr.
No Vileyns Word': Social Context and Performance in Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 17 (1982): 21-39.
- Description
- The description of the Friar, the tone of his remarks and his tale, and the response of the Summoner are couched in ambiguities. These are clarified if we are aware of the implicit context in which he operates: a social hierarchy, based on ecclesiastical hierarchy, assumes that friars are superior to summoners.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.