Chaucer's Parody of Compline in the "Reeve's Tale."

Author / Editor
Correale, Robert M.

Title
Chaucer's Parody of Compline in the "Reeve's Tale."

Published
Chaucer Review 1.3 (1967): 161-66.

Description
Supports a reading of "complyn" (variant "coupling") at RvT 1.4171, identifying parodic echoes of the prayer from the Holy Office in the language and action of the end of the Tale. The parody "brightens" the comic irony and morality of the Tale.

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