The Jangler's 'Bourse': Gender, Renunciation, and Chaucer's Manciple
- Author / Editor
- Cox, Catherine S.
The Jangler's 'Bourse': Gender, Renunciation, and Chaucer's Manciple
- Published
- South Atlantic Review 61 (1996): 1-21.
- Description
- As a character "capable of saying one thing but meaning quite another," the Manciple ridicules the "wisdom of the mother" at the end of ManT. The crow suffers for the "feminine behavior" of talking too much, and the Manciple talks "as if a woman" to "warn against such speech." Like ManT, Chaucer's Ret uses a rhetoric of renunciation to speak out against silence.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Retraction.