Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale: and "The Handless Maiden."

Author / Editor
Burch, Beth.

Title
Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale: and "The Handless Maiden."

Published
Language Quarterly 17.3-4 (1979): 50-51.

Description
Chaucer's version of MLT is more like Trevet's than the folktale version identified as "The Handless Maiden." If Chaucer knew this folktale version, his choice of Trevet's more sophisticated version is another tribute to his art.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.