The Hunt of the Hare in "Das Häslein."

Author / Editor
Wailes, Stephen A.

Title
The Hunt of the Hare in "Das Häslein."

Published
Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 5.2 (1969): 92-101.

Description
Opens a discussion of hare-hunting as parody in the Middle High German fabliau "Das Häslein" with comments on Chaucer's Monk (GP 191-92 and MkP 7.1945-48) and, with reference to medieval hunting practice, shows that the German work is farcical.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale
Background and General Criticism