'He is ane Haly Freir': 'The Freiris of Berwik,' 'The Summoner's Tale,' and the Tradition of Anti-Fraternal Satire
- Author / Editor
- Salter, David.
'He is ane Haly Freir': 'The Freiris of Berwik,' 'The Summoner's Tale,' and the Tradition of Anti-Fraternal Satire
- Published
- Scottish Literary Review 5.2 (2013): 23-40.
- Description
- Compares the fifteenth-century Scottish fabliau, "The Freiris of Berwik," to SumT and finds that the treatment of friars in the Scottish tale is more ironic than satirical, and is more concerned with eliciting laughter than with advancing an anti-fraternal agenda.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations