Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America
- Author / Editor
- Frantzen, Allen J.
Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America
- Published
- Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- Physical Description
- x, 369 pp.
- Description
- Examines same-sex love in English literature and culture between 600 and 1200, with commentary on later tradition.
- Contains recurrent references to Chaucer's works, including GP, RvT, ParsT, and, especially, MLT.
- Although Chaucer "made nothing of" the love between Custance and Hermengyld, "it is same-sex love."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Man of Law and His Tale.