Chaucer's Summoner, the Friar's Summoner, and the "Friar's Tale."

Author / Editor
Cawley, A. C.

Title
Chaucer's Summoner, the Friar's Summoner, and the "Friar's Tale."

Published
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (Literary and Historical Section) 8 (1956-1957): 173-80.

Description
Assesses "unsavory" details of the GP description of the Summoner, the "bad feeling" between the Friar and the Summoner (WBP 3.829ff. and FrP 1265ff.), and concerns that link the GP Summoner and the summoner of FrT, clarifying the Friar's "attack" on his fellow ecclesiast and his presentation of him as a devil-figure,

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale
Friar and His Tale