The Finished Fragment: A Reassessment of the 'Squire's Tale'

Author / Editor
Peterson, Joyce E.

Title
The Finished Fragment: A Reassessment of the 'Squire's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 5.1 (1970): 62-74.

Description
Argues that SqT reflects its teller's unsophisticated "effort to dissociate himself and courtly love from the . . . crude caricature" evident in MerT, and contends that when the Franklin interrupts the Squire he is "'pretending' to think him finished."

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale