Analogues of Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale'

Author / Editor
Nicholson, Peter.

Title
Analogues of Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale'

Published
English Language Notes 17.2 (1979-80): 93-98.

Description
Archer Taylor's account, in "Sources and Analogues," of the analogues to FrT is incomplete and misleading. Exempla from two fourteenth-century English manuscript collections show that it is possible to be much more precise about Chaucer's indebtedness.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.