The Manciple's Problem

Author / Editor
Trask, Richard M.

Title
The Manciple's Problem

Published
Studies in Short Fiction 14 (1977): 109-16.

Description
The last 43 lines of ManT indiate that at home the Manciple must not have been able to get a word in edgewise. His domestic experience has made him obtuse and incoherent. If one so obtuse can cheat his lawyer-masters, the satire is finally on the obtuseness and garrulity of lawyers.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.