Chaucer's Beard-Making
- Author / Editor
- Tkacz, Catherine Brown.
Chaucer's Beard-Making
- Published
- Chaucer Review 18 (1983): 127-36.
- Description
- Clerk John's oath by "seint Cutberd" (line 4127) is to the appropriate saint Cuthbert, but Chaucer puns on "cut-beard," suggesting sexual deceit.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.