The End of The Summoner's Tale and the Uses of Pentecost
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Glending.
The End of The Summoner's Tale and the Uses of Pentecost
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 209-45, 1999.
- Description
- Explores a variety of practices and meanings associated with Pentecost in Chaucer's time as context for a nuanced understanding of responses to SumT, especially its ending, which parodies the feast. In addition to traditional iconography, dramatic stagings of Pentecost, along with Lollard criticism of liturgical practice and iconology, help us to understand how the ending "extend[s] and complicate[s]" the "antifraternalism" of the Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.