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The Summoner's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tale is a fierce counterpunch to the preceding tale by The Friar, who had delivered an attack on summoners.
The Summoner’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Told in retaliation for the Friar’s unflattering portrait of a summoner, this earthy tale describes a hypocritical friar’s attempt to wheedle a gift from an ailing benefactor.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Summoner's story shows the Summoner's disdain for the pilgrim Friar and the Summoner's belief that the message the friar in the tale espouses is of a blasphemous nature, one that inverts and perverts the essence of his Christian order.
Il racconto dell'apparitore (The Summoner's Tale) è l'ottava novella scritta da Geoffrey Chaucer ne I racconti di Canterbury. Poiché nel racconto precedente il frate ha preso in giro la categoria cui egli appartiene, ora l'apparitore contraccambia raccontando una novella che sbeffeggia i frati.
The Summoner's Prologue. The Prologe of the Somonours Tale. 1665 This Somonour in his styropes hye stood; This Summoner in his stirrups stood high; 1666 Upon this Frere his herte was so wood. Upon this Friar his heart was so enraged.
The Summoner's Tale. A friar went to preach and beg in a marshy region of Yorkshire called Holderness. In his sermons he begged for donations for the church and afterward he begged for charity from the local residents. The Friar interrupts, calling the Summoner a liar, but is silenced by the Host.
The Summoner's Tale is a fabliaux, but the surviving fabliaux offer almost no analogues. The only one that comes anywhere near Chaucer's tale in either action or in respect to characterization is a French fabliaux by Jacques de Baisieux: The Tale of the Priest's Bladder.
