Irony in the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale."

Author / Editor
O'Reilly, William M., Jr.

Title
Irony in the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale."

Published
Greyfriar 10 (1968): 25-39.

Description
Argues that "there is an ironically complex relationship of the speaker to what he says" in CYPT, particularly in the way that the Yeoman's simplistic understanding of alchemy leads him to abandon the evils of alchemy while the Canon's intelligent comprehension of the complexities of the science involve him with its trammels in an ongoing way.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale