Wrath and Rhetoric in "The Summoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Merrill, Thomas F.
Wrath and Rhetoric in "The Summoner's Tale."
- Published
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language 4 (1962): 341-50.
- Description
- Treats Friar John's "digression" on anger in SumT as an "instance of mistaken penitential preaching" that is, satirically, aimed at Huberd the Friar. The awkward, inappropriate length of the address is part of the Sommoner's riposte to his adversary and, moreover, rebounds on the Summoner himself, especially when seen in light of ParsT and its shared concern with anger and related Senecan source material pertaining to hypocrisy, slander, and flattery.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
Friar and His Tale
Parson and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations