An Ambiguous Reference in Chaucer's "Friar's Tale."

Author / Editor
Richardson, Janette.

Title
An Ambiguous Reference in Chaucer's "Friar's Tale."

Published
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 198 (1962): 388-90.

Description
Traces the scribal and editorial history of capitalizing (or not) "S/summoner" in FrT 3.1327, advocating the lower case "s" for the way it maintains the ambiguity of reference to the protagonist of FrT and the Friar's pilgrim-opponent.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Summoner and His Tale