Performing the Perverse: The Abuse of Masculine Power in the Reeve's Tale

Author / Editor
Pigg, Daniel F.

Title
Performing the Perverse: The Abuse of Masculine Power in the Reeve's Tale

Published
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 53-61.

Description
Connects the violence implicit in the performance of the Tale with physical violence and argues that RvT portrays the perversion of masculine power.

Alternative Title
Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.