Chaucer's "The Summoner's Tale, D 2184-2188.
- Author / Editor
- Severs, J. Burke.
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