Chaucer's Clerks

Author / Editor
Severs, J. Burke.

Title
Chaucer's Clerks

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 140-52.

Description
Surveys Chaucer's seven clerks (Nicholas and Absolon of MilT, John and Aleyn of RvT, the clerk of FranT, Jankyn of WBP, and the Clerk), describing the extent to which the characterizations accord with or echo what is known of "fourteenth-century college men."

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale