"After His Ymage": The Central Ironies of the "Friar's Tale."

Description: Reads FrT as "one of Chaucer's more carefully worked and closely unified poems, and, . . . one of his most dramatic." Focuses on the poem's "Faustian situation," its '"unusual withholding of the denouement," and "its moral implication," exploring characterization and stylistic irony, particularly dramatic irony, and a "pervasive duality of phrasing" and imagery.