Symbolic Ambivalence in 'I have a gentil cock'

Author / Editor
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.

Title
Symbolic Ambivalence in 'I have a gentil cock'

Published
Fifteenth-Century Studies 11 (1985): 1-5.

Description
Trede-fowl, the controlling image of a Middle English lyric (Sloane MS 2593), often cited as an analogue to images in NPT and MkT, suggests pagan, early Christian, priestly, and bawdy meanings.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.