Transgression and Containment: Language, Defamation, and The Manciple's Tale

Author / Editor
Lim, Hyunyang.

Title
Transgression and Containment: Language, Defamation, and The Manciple's Tale

Published
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 21.2 (2013): 193-214.

Description
Examines concern with slander and defamation during Richard II's reign as context for a reading of ManT, contending that ManT reveals Chaucer's skepticism towards the power of language as a method of political control.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale