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The Summoner's Tale. " 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. Summoners were officials in ecclesiastical courts who delivered a summons to people who had been brought up on various ...
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.
Getting even with the Friar for his tale of a wicked summoner, the Summoner tells of a wicked friar. 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.
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 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 Canterbury Tales. by Geoffrey Chaucer. Buy Study Guide. The Canterbury Tales Summary and Analysis of The Summoner's Tale. Prologue to the Summoner's Tale. The Summoner was enraged by the tale that the Friar told, quaking in anger. Since, he says, you have all listened to the Friar lie, please do listen to my tale.
There are likewise no direct sources for the Summoner's Tale, which seems to have been entirely Chaucer's invention. Even if there were such a source it could hardly account for the brilliant characterization of the Friar, one of Chaucer's most delightfully sleazy characters.
