From Southwark's Tabard Inn to Canterbury's Cheker-of-the-Hope: The Un-Chaucerian 'Tale of Beryn'
- Author / Editor
- Jost, Jean E.
From Southwark's Tabard Inn to Canterbury's Cheker-of-the-Hope: The Un-Chaucerian 'Tale of Beryn'
- Published
- Fifteenth-Century Studies 21 (1994): 133-48.
- Description
- "Beryn" lacks several typical Chaucerian characteristics: a "courtly demeanor and value system," idealism, verbal wit, and sophisticated characterization. Neither prologue nor tale rises above slapstick or the "mundane reality of life."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.