The Tercelet as Tiger: Bestiary Hypocrisy in the Squire's Tale

Author / Editor
Storm, Melvin.

Title
The Tercelet as Tiger: Bestiary Hypocrisy in the Squire's Tale

Published
English Language Notes 14 (1977): 172-74.

Description
Various medieval sources establish the image of the tiger as a figure of hypocrisy. Chaucer's description of the tercelet as a "tiger, full of doublenesse" (5.543) is no accident.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale.