Chaucer the Forester: The Friar's Tale, Forest History, and Officialdom

Author / Editor
Weiskott, Eric.

Title
Chaucer the Forester: The Friar's Tale, Forest History, and Officialdom

Published
Chaucer Review 47.3 (2013): 323-36.

Description
In light of the abuses of power in the medieval forest industry, the forest as backdrop to romance tales, and the hunt as an aristocratic privilege, FrT critiques administrative bureaucracy through a re-working of the "devil-and-advocate" fable.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale