Symkyn's Place in the Reeve's Tale

Author / Editor
Woods, William F.

Title
Symkyn's Place in the Reeve's Tale

Published
Chaucer Review 39 (2004): 17-40.

Description
RvT is "concerned with breaking the ranks of social hierarchy" and what causes individuals to desire such breaks. The clerks, the women, Bayard, and especially Symkyn all experience "frustrated desire," which leads Symkyn "to expand into outer or inner space, because he is unable to accept the nature of his own small space."

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.