Chaucer's Wine-Cask Image: Word Play in "The Reeve's Prologue."

Author / Editor
Maclaine, A. H.

Title
Chaucer's Wine-Cask Image: Word Play in "The Reeve's Prologue."

Published
Medium Aevum 31 (1962): 129-31.

Description
Commends the force and clarity of the passage on old age in RvP (1.3887-98), particularly the images of the wine cask and the tongue, the first familiar to Chaucer as a member of a family in the wine business

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
Style and Versification
Chaucer's Life