Chaucer's Peple and Folk
- Author / Editor
- Yager, Susan.
Chaucer's Peple and Folk
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100: 211-33, 2001.
- Description
- "Peple" and "folk" are marked terms in Chaucer's usage. In particular, "peple" is nearly always negative; "folk" is either neutral or positive. In Chaucer's translations (e.g., Bo), "folk" normally translates as "gens" or its cognates, while "peple" translates as "vulgus," "populus," or their cognates. In TC and CT, "folk" refers to lovers; the Miller, Reeve, and Wife of Bath do not use "peple" at all. In ClT, "peple" refers to the citizens of Saluzzo, but Griselde is among the "folk."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Boece.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Clerk and his Tale.