Chaucer's "The Summoner's Tale, D 2184-2188.

Author / Editor
Severs, J. Burke.

Title
Chaucer's "The Summoner's Tale, D 2184-2188.

Published
Explicator 23.3 (1964): item 20.

Description
Comments on the uses of "master" and "Rabbi" in SumT 3.2184-88 as a means to convey the hypocrisy of the Summoner's friar (along with Chaucer's Friar in GP 1.261). The references are rooted in the biblical source, Matthew 23:5-11.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale
Friar and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations