The Mediaeval Notion of Chaucer's 'Manciple's Tale'

Author / Editor
Westervelt, L. A.

Title
The Mediaeval Notion of Chaucer's 'Manciple's Tale'

Published
Southern Review (Adelaide) 14 (1981): 107-15.

Description
The focus of ManT is not adultery and murder but rather talebearing. Chaucer returns to Ovid for janglery as a serious crime. If janglery causes murder, the janglerer is as guilty as the murderer because he is the cause of the crime.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale