Unfinished Business: The Termination of Chaucer's Cook's Tale

Author / Editor
Casey, Jim.

Title
Unfinished Business: The Termination of Chaucer's Cook's Tale

Published
Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 185-96.

Description
In view of Chaucer's resistance to the "finality of closure," allusions to CkT in Fragment 9 suggest that CkT "may be complete for Chaucer, although not completed by the Cook." Perhaps the Tale's "unfinished business" is an interruption by one of the other pilgrims, cutting short an increasingly vulgar piece.

Chaucer Subjects
Cook and His Tale.
Manciple and His Tale.