Symbolic Ambivalence in 'I have a gentil cock'
- Author / Editor
- Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.
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.