Lie and Fable in Chaucer's "Manciple's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Matsuda, Takami.
Lie and Fable in Chaucer's "Manciple's Tale."
- Published
- Geibun-Kenkyu (Keio University) 113.2 (2017): 29-39.
- Description
- Argues that both the structure and the content of ManT explore the relativity of truth and lie. Regarding the structure, the dependence on literature of practical wisdom raises a doubt as to the tale's authority as an exemplum. As for the content, ManT is "no longer about the delayed discovery of truth as in 'Othello'," and instead focuses on Phoebus's "confused state of mind," in which "truth is whatever he wishes to believe."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale