Performing the Perverse: The Abuse of Masculine Power in the Reeve's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Pigg, Daniel F.
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.