Chaucer's Lisping Friar.
- Author / Editor
- Whitesell, J. Edwin.
Chaucer's Lisping Friar.
- Published
- Modern Language Notes 71.3 (1956): 160-61.
- Description
- Links the use of "ferthyng" and the lisping of the Friar in GP 1.255 and 1.264 with the friar of SumT and his use of "ferthyng" (3.1967), suggesting that if that latter had a lisp like the former, his pronunciation may have inspired the "crude practical joke" Thomas plays at the end of the Summoner's retributive tale—evidence of Chaucer's "dramatic skill in tying together descriptive items in the Prologue with events in the tales themselves."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale
Language and Word Studies