'Have Ye No Mannes Herte?': Chauntecleer as Cock-Man in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'

Author / Editor
Thomas, Paul R.

Title
'Have Ye No Mannes Herte?': Chauntecleer as Cock-Man in the 'Nun's Priest'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. 187-202.

Description
Differences between NPT and Roman de Renart indicate how Chaucer's 'Tale' depicts a mock-heroic masculinity through its scenes with the cock and the hen and the cock and the fox, as well as in the chase scene.

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

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.