Rage, Play, and Foreplay in Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Moffat, Douglas.

Title
Rage, Play, and Foreplay in Middle English Literature

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 94 (1993): 167-84.

Description
Middle English "ragen" acquires meanings within a defined semantic field of sexual activity and then attracts to itself a limited set of further energetic sexual meanings. Among instances illustrating this usage are GP (1.257), MilT (1.3774), and RvT (1.3959).

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.