'The Reeve's Tale' and the Honor of Men

Author / Editor
Justman, Stewart.

Title
'The Reeve's Tale' and the Honor of Men

Published
Studies in Short Fiction 32 (1995): 21-27.

Description
Explores relations among cuckoldry, charivari, and notions of masculine honor in MilT and RvT to argue that the pretensions to honor in RvT are debunked and that traditional notions of honor are themselves questioned.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.
Miller and His Tale.