'A gay yeman, under a forest side': 'The Friar's Tale' and the Robin Hood Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Phillips, Helen.
'A gay yeman, under a forest side': 'The Friar's Tale' and the Robin Hood Tradition
- Published
- Ruth Evans, Helen Fulton, and David Matthews, eds. Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), pp. 123-37.
- Description
- Phillips explores verbal, narrative, and thematic parallels between FrT and Robin Hood tales such as "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisburne." Emphases on "grenewode," archery, disguise, commercialism, ecclesiastical corruption, oppression of the poor, and ultimate righteousness suggest that Chaucer had outlaw tales in mind when writing FrT.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.