The Summoner's Tale

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Condren’s article, “Two Witty Glosses” discusses how the “The Friar’s Tale” and “The Summoner’s Tale” both use language to create ironic foreshadowing of each tale’s events. Condren also expounds upon how each tale is structurally similar. Both tales follow a straightforward formula to present both tales’ engagements with social discourse and the importance of intent. Condren’s structuralist approach to the three tales in Fragment III (“The Friar’s Tale” and “The Summoner’s Tale in particular) illustrates how language itself operates within tales that rely heavily on the specifics of

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