[Un]Licensed Riot: Prodigality, Hypocrisy, and Guild Discourse in Chaucer's "Cook's Tale'."
- Author / Editor
- Pecan, David.
[Un]Licensed Riot: Prodigality, Hypocrisy, and Guild Discourse in Chaucer's "Cook's Tale'."
- Published
- Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 10 (2022): 281-92.
- Description
- Assesses the social and economic dynamics of CkT and the GP descriptions of the Cook and the guildsmen, arguing that the tale "indicts both the laterally mobile prodigal apprentice and the decadent hypocrisy" of his master "through the linked subversion of license and guild authority."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Cook and His Tale
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales