Reinterpreting the Manciple's Tale

Author / Editor
Fulk, R. D.

Title
Reinterpreting the Manciple's Tale

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 78 (1979): 485-93.

Description
ManT--a warning to the Cook with whom the Manciple quarrels--supports three main themes: the insignificance of social rank (9.105-270), the danger inherent in anger (271-91), and the foolishness of a wanton tongue (292-362).

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.