Chaucer's Beard-Making

Author / Editor
Tkacz, Catherine Brown.

Title
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.