The Structure of Irony in "The Summoner's Tale."

Author / Editor
Adams, John F.

Title
The Structure of Irony in "The Summoner's Tale."

Published
Essays in Criticism 12 (1962): 126-32.

Description
Identifies ways that word-play, echoic details, and thematic patterning contribute to the "dramatic" irony in SumT whereby the friar's hypocritical glossing is revealed and insulted without overt glossing by the narrator.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale
Style and Versification