Boys Will Be Women : Musings on Classroom Nostalgia and the Chaucerian Audience(s)

Author / Editor
Woods, Marjorie Curry.

Title
Boys Will Be Women : Musings on Classroom Nostalgia and the Chaucerian Audience(s)

Published
R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 143-66.

Description
Woods hypothesizes how Chaucer and the male members of his audience may have been affected by their experiences in an "all-male medieval classroom" and how, in turn, their encounters with female literary characters and the rhetorical exercises of abbreviation and amplification may be reflected in the writing and early reception of LGW.

Alternative Title
Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Chaucer's Life.
Style and Versification.