A Cart that Charged was with Hay: The Symbolism of Hay in Chaucer's "Friar's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Costomiris, Robert.
A Cart that Charged was with Hay: The Symbolism of Hay in Chaucer's "Friar's Tale."
- Published
- Neophilologus 104 (2020): 567-83.
- Description
- Describes hay as a symbol of ephemerality, materiality, and avarice in FrT and argues that "the summoner's urging his companion (a fiend) to seize a cart of hay . . . draws him closer to the very substance that symbolizes his own sinful propensities and secures the certainty of his damnation well before the actual event."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale