The Squire as Story-Teller.
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, D. A.
The Squire as Story-Teller.
- Published
- University of Toronto Quarterly 34 (1964): 82-92.
- Description
- Characterizes the Squire as a "young man among his elders" on the pilgrimage, describing his "nervous, apologetic tone" that derives from his uses and abuses of "rhetorical decorum, "tinged with "self-regard" and snobbish "anti-intellectualism." The Franklins interrupts the "rambling narrative" to relieve the Squire's youthful efforts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
Style and Versification
Franklin and His Tale