Chaucer's Wine-Cask Image: Word Play in "The Reeve's Prologue."
- Author / Editor
- Maclaine, A. H.
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