Governing the 'Cook's Tale' in Bodley 686
- Author / Editor
- Pinti, Daniel J.
Governing the 'Cook's Tale' in Bodley 686
- Published
- Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 379-88.
- Description
- By adding forty-five lines in "quasi-Langlandian" alliterative personification allegory to CkT, the Bodley scribe creates a second distinctive narrative voice that competes with Chaucer's own. The deliberate moral ending "governs" both Perykn and Chaucer, who left "some badly-spun text threatening to unravel."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Cook and His Tale.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.