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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Reeve's Tale

Introduction:

The Reeve's Tale, since it so closely resembles the Miller's, requires
very little introduction. It too is a fabliau. There is, however, a difference
of tone and scope. The Miller's Tale has an uproariously funny plot, it is
true, but it also happens to ridicule some of the "niceness" of refined love -
what Chaucer called "fyn lovyng" - which the Knight has spoken of so
sympathetically. The Reeve's Tale, on the contrary, seems to exist more for
its own sake. It is little more than a nasty rejoinder by the Reeve to the
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