Chaucer's "Gentil" Manciple and His "Gentil" Tale.

Author / Editor
Birney, Earle.

Title
Chaucer's "Gentil" Manciple and His "Gentil" Tale.

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 61 (1960): 257-67.

Description
Explores details, emphases, ironies, and double ironies in the GP description of the Manciple and in ManPT, characterizing him as "shrewd," "smug," and "indiscrete"--a "successful rascal" who aspires to "gentil" status, is "insecure," and overly talkative.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale
Style and Versification