Madame Eglentyne and the Bankside Brothels

Author / Editor
Rex, Richard.

Title
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.