Jokes, Jests, Pranks, and Play in the "Cook's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Bertolet, Craig E.
Jokes, Jests, Pranks, and Play in the "Cook's Tale."
- Published
- In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.
- Physical Description
- [7 pp.]
- Description
- Comments on the possibly harmful and/or fraudulent aspects of "japes" in CkPT, offering information about the food trade in medieval London and considering the Cook's "mormel" (GP 1.386) to be a sign of his vulnerability. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions for discussion.
- Alternative Title
- The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Cook and His Tale