Exemplary Figures as Characterizing Devices in the "Friar's Tale" and the "Summoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Baker, Donald C.
Exemplary Figures as Characterizing Devices in the "Friar's Tale" and the "Summoner's Tale."
- Published
- University of Mississippi Studies in English 3 (1962): 35-41.
- Description
- Explores how exempla and citations of authority--both largely via allusive names--are used by the Friar and the Summoner in order to compete with the Wife of Bath and criticize each other.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
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