Gesture in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Windeatt, Barry

Title
Gesture in Chaucer

Published
Medievalia et Humanistica 9 (1979): 143-61.

Description
Chaucer frequently gives his characters gestures which are not in his sources in order more fully to reflect the inner lives of the actors. His most frequent gestures center on eyes and faces.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.