Chaucer and the Pope of Double Worstede

Author / Editor
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]

Title
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.