Hunter and Prey: Functional Imagery in Chaucer's "Friar's Tale."

Author / Editor
Richardson, Janette.

Title
Hunter and Prey: Functional Imagery in Chaucer's "Friar's Tale."

Published
English Miscellany 12 (1961): 9-20.

Description
Argues that Chaucer's use of conventional hunter and prey images in FrT "serves an organic function within the aesthetic whole of the work.” Rather than "functioning as mere decoration" it reinforces and deepens "the comic irony both inherent and explicit within the framework of the story."

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale
Style and Versification