Chaste Marriage: Fashion and Texts at the Court of Richard II
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
Chaste Marriage: Fashion and Texts at the Court of Richard II
- Published
- Pacific Coast Philology 30 (1995): 15-26.
- Description
- Chaucer exposes the Ricardian practice of chaste marriage "for what perhaps it really was: sexual hypocrisy posing as virtuous Christian abstinence." The false romantic passion and comic fusion of the clerkly and courtly in male characters such as Absolon in MilT and the Pardoner in PardT undercut such hypocrisy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.