Chaucer's Summoner, the Friar's Summoner, and the "Friar's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Cawley, A. C.
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