"Right in his cherles termes wol I speke": Chaucer's Self-Defeating Reeve and His Self-Destructing Tale.

Author / Editor
Blackwell, Alice.

Title
"Right in his cherles termes wol I speke": Chaucer's Self-Defeating Reeve and His Self-Destructing Tale.

Published
Medieval Perspectives 76 (2015): 163–80.

Description
Although the Reeve claims a moral high ground by telling a story that deals out justice to its dishonest miller, this revenge does not accord with the moral virtue of justice nor with the amoral fabliau genre, undermining the Reeve's sanctimony and raising unanswered questions about the degree of consent given by the omen who become instruments of the clerks' revenge

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale