The "Manciple's Tale": Parody and Critique.

Author / Editor
Hazelton, Richard.

Title
The "Manciple's Tale": Parody and Critique.

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 62 (1963): 1-31

Description
Assesses ManT in light of its sources and analogues to reveal a "tissue of comic devices—of controlled incongruities, of hyperbole, of antiphrasis, of equivocations, allusions, and purposeful distortions" that "produce a parodic version of the romanticized moral fable" such as those found in the "Ovide Moralisé" and Guillaume de Machaut's "Voir Dit." In particular Chaucer targeted John Gower's tale of Phebus and the crow in the "Confessio Amantis."

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification