Satire and Regionalism: The Reeve and His Tale
- Author / Editor
- Garbáty, Thomas Jay.
Satire and Regionalism: The Reeve and His Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 8.1 (1973): 1-8.
- Description
- Identifies the "compound humor" of the "geographic dialect" material in RvT and the GP description of the Reeve, where he is depicted as an "immigrant" from Norfolk to London and thereby the butt of humor for indigenous Londoners.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies