The 'Queynte' Punnings of Chaucer's Critics

Author / Editor
Benson, Larry D.

Title
The 'Queynte' Punnings of Chaucer's Critics

Published
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 23-47.

Description
Discusses bawdy words, obscenities, and euphemisms in Chaucer,exposing fallacies in overzealous scholarly search for obscene puns.
Reprinted in "Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer: Selected Studies of Larry D. Benson," ed. Theodore M. Andersson and Stephen A. Barney (Aldershot. Hant: Scolar; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1995).

Alternative Title
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.