Doubting Thomas in Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Clark, Roy Peter.
Doubting Thomas in Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 11 (1976): 164-78.
- Description
- In SumT Friar John and Thomas parody significant features in the life of St. Thomas the Apostle. The probing of Thomas's body by the friar parodies the "doubting Thomas" legend. The references to St. Thomas provide a foil by which the audience may judge the actions in the tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.