Chaucer's Proverbs and His Comic Art in Some Fabliaux

Author / Editor
Fujiki, Takayoshi.

Title
Chaucer's Proverbs and His Comic Art in Some Fabliaux

Published
Sapientia 39 (2005): 59-72.

Description
Fujiki considers comic "misapplication of proverbs" in TC (Pandarus), MilT (John), MerT (January), and SumT (the friar), suggesting that Chaucer capitalized on his audience's expectation of proverbs to characterize some users as foolish.
In Japanese, with English abstract.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Miller and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale
Style and Versification