The 'Reeve's Tale' as a Fabliau

Author / Editor
Olson, Glending

Title
The 'Reeve's Tale' as a Fabliau

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 35 (1974): 219-30.

Description
Argues that in its concern with social pretension and its atmosphere of "game and contest," RvT is better regarded as a comic fabliau than as a tale of vengeance that reflects its teller. Compares and contrasts RvT with several fabliaux, including "Berangier au lonc cul," "Le Meunier et les deux clers," and Chaucer's own.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations