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

Author / Editor
Harrington, David V.

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

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 66 (1965): 160-66.

Description
Explores the moral and intellectual "failings" of the priest in CYT, arguing that his greed, his gullibility, and his status as an "annueleer" make him a target of the Tale's satire by way of dramatic irony.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale