Chaucer and the Pope of Double Worstede
- Author / Editor
- Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
Chaucer and the Pope of Double Worstede
- Published
- Chaucer Newsletter 1.1 (1979): 15-16.
- Description
- Argues that GP 259-62, 642-43, and TC II, 36-37 are allusions to the Great Schism: the Friar like a pope in his "'double' worstede"; the pope like a popinjay (of two voices?), and the proverb that more than one way leads to Rome.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.