'This Was a Thrifty Tale for the Nones': Chaucer's Man of Law
- Author / Editor
- Caie, Graham D.
'This Was a Thrifty Tale for the Nones': Chaucer's Man of Law
- Published
- Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 47-60.
- Description
- Examines several glosses to MLT to argue that the "glossator's aim is to show the reader how the narrator manipulates texts," helping us to realize that the Man of Law is too interested in "things of this world and is spiritually lacking."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.