'The Reeve's Tale' and 'Gombert'

Author / Editor
Olson, Glending.

Title
'The Reeve's Tale' and 'Gombert'

Published
Modern Language Review 64 (1969): 721-25.

Description
Shows that in details and atmosphere the relation between RvT and its analogue, Jean Bodel's twelfth-century "Gombert et les Deux Clers," is a "good deal closer than has been realized." Suggests that Chaucer's source combined details of "Gombert" and "Le Meunier et les Deux Clers," a widely accepted analogue.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations