Hodge of Ware and Geber's Cook: Wordplay in the 'Manciple's Prologue'

Author / Editor
Brodie, Alexander H.

Title
Hodge of Ware and Geber's Cook: Wordplay in the 'Manciple's Prologue'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 72 (1971): 62-68.

Description
Explicates details and images of the Cook in ManP to argue for a "three-fold elaboration": the besotted Cook is a "victim of obsession with drink" who exhibits the pallor of the love-lorn knight which is also the paleness of the alchemical fire-tender of CYP.

Chaucer Subjects
Cook and His Tale
Manciple and His Tale
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Style and Versification