Chaucer's "Gentil" Manciple and His "Gentil" Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Birney, Earle.
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