The Chaste Sir Thopas

Author / Editor
Van Arsdale, Ruth.

Title
The Chaste Sir Thopas

Published
American Notes and Queries 13 (1975): 146-48.

Description
George Williams is wrong to claim homosexual implication for Th, in the light of a re-examination of the knight himself, the forest through which he rode, and Chuacer's use of "prike" in the tale. To find sexual connotations in the tale is to read too much into it.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas.