'He That Will Swear Will Lie': A Further Note
- Author / Editor
- Doyle, Charles Clay.
'He That Will Swear Will Lie': A Further Note
- Published
- Chaucer Review 32 (1997): 108-10.
- Description
- Peter Beidler asserted that a "shadow allusion" to CYT in "Rip Van Winkle" had gone unnoticed; in fact, scholars of seventeenth-century literature have recognized the allusion. Further, Chaucer's statement that one cannot trust someone who swears to be true until death is proverbial.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Influence and later Allusion.