The Old Way and the Parson's Way: An Ironic Reading of the Parson's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Allen, Judson Boyce.
The Old Way and the Parson's Way: An Ironic Reading of the Parson's Tale
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 3 (1973): 255-71.
- Description
- Reads ParsT as "just another tale" (rather than the crescendo of CT), adducing Boethian aesthetic and moral attitudes, Aristotelian poetics, and the sequence of the last four tales as evidence that we should read the penitential message of ParsT ironically. The Ret is the genuine ending of CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale
- Chaucer's Retraction