Chaucer's Friar's "Old Rebekke."

Author / Editor
Hatton, Tom.

Title
Chaucer's Friar's "Old Rebekke."

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968): 266-71.

Description
Reads the widow of FrT as a figural "type of the Church" that contributes to the "comic irony" of the Tale and deepens the guilt of the summoner by "playing off" of the biblical story of Rebecca.

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