The "Reeve's Tale": Chaucer's "Measure for Measure."
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Paul A.
The "Reeve's Tale": Chaucer's "Measure for Measure."
- Published
- Studies in Philology 59 (1962): 1-17.
- Description
- Characterizes Oswald the Reeve as a guiler beguiled and a "judge who unwittingly judges himself by his own principles," examining aspects of GP (Miller and Reeve), MilPY, and RvPT for the ways that Oswald's retributive assault on Robin lacks disinterestedness and backfires, fails to demonstrate the justice that should inhere in his occupation of reeve, and unjustly and inappropriately impugns the Miller.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale
Miller and His Tale