Society and Nature in the 'Cook's Tale'

Author / Editor
Woods, William F.

Title
Society and Nature in the 'Cook's Tale'

Published
Papers on Language and Literature 32 (1996): 189-205

Description
Explores ways CkPT respond to themes raised earlier in Fragment 1 and focuses on how CkT provides a "powerfully suggestive" urban setting in which the regulated life of Perkyn's master is contrasted by the mercurial, primal, savage world of thievery and prostitution.

Chaucer Subjects
Cook and His Tale.