A Reading of Chaucer's "Reeve's Tale."

Author / Editor
Friedman, John Block.

Title
A Reading of Chaucer's "Reeve's Tale."

Published
Chaucer Review 2.1 (1967): 8-19.

Description
Examines animal, costume, and color imagery in RvT to show that Chaucer adapted his source by increasing and specifying such imagery, lending moral dimension to the fabliau plot and offering an exemplary illustration of the "sins of pride, wrath and lust."

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