Madame Eglentyne and the Bankside Brothels
- Author / Editor
- Rex, Richard.
Madame Eglentyne and the Bankside Brothels
- Published
- Richard Rex. "The Sins of Madame Eglentyne" and Other Essays on Chaucer (Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1995), pp. 78-94.
- Description
- Argues that the name Eglentyne ("rose") connoted sexual dalliance to Chaucer's audience. Fourteenth-century property records indicate affiliations between property owned by the priory at Stratford-at-Bow and the Bankside brothel, the Rose.
- Alternative Title
- "The Sins of Madame Eglentyne" and Other Essays on Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.