Bastardy as a Gifted Status in Chaucer and Malory
- Author / Editor
- Watson, Jessica Lewis.
Bastardy as a Gifted Status in Chaucer and Malory
- Published
- Lewiston, N.Y.;
- Queenston, Ontario;
- and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 1996.
- Physical Description
- x, 90 pp.
- Series
- Studies in Mediaeval Literature, no. 14.
- Description
- In Chaucer's RvT and Malory's "Morte D'Arthur," illegitimacy is not a negative notion. The Reeve is unorthodox in his negative view of the illegitimacy of Symkyn's wife and of the sexual liberation of Symkyn's daughter. Chaucer however, discloses a less critical view, enabling his readers to consider bastardy and sexual play in a positive light.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.