"The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale": An Interpretation.
- Author / Editor
- Gardner, John.
"The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale": An Interpretation.
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 46 (1967): 1-17.
- Description
- Characterizes the Canon's Yeoman as "a clever young man, almost too clever for his own good," a comic figure whose renunciation of the Canon and of alchemy is marked by shifting identities and ambiguities which indicate ironically the Yeoman's own inconsistencies and failure to understand fully his own actions and outlooks.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
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