The Narrator of the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale."

Author / Editor
Harrington, David V.

Title
The Narrator of the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale."

Published
Annuale Mediaevale 9 (1968): 85-97.

Description
Resists readings of the CYT that regard the narrator as stupid or unwitting in his self-revelation, contending instead that he is a "newly reformed alchemist" who is, generally, "rational, down-to-earth, and persuasive in his description and assessment" of alchemical practices.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale