Chaucer's Gildsmen and Their Cook.

Author / Editor
Lisca, Peter.

Title
Chaucer's Gildsmen and Their Cook.

Published
Modern Language Notes 70 (1955): 321-24.

Description
Identifies satiric elements in the description of the Guildsmen in GP—stylistic jibes and social critique, including the association of them with the Cook, who is later identifiable as the historic Roger de Ware, of ill repute.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Cook and His Tale