Transgressing the Borderline of Gender : Zenobia in the Monk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hamaguchi, Keiko.
Transgressing the Borderline of Gender : Zenobia in the Monk's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 40 (2005): 183-206.
- Description
- MkP reflects the Monk's anxiety about cross-dressers such as Zenobia, whom he orientalizes in MLT as a monstrous threat to traditional authority. Eventually humiliated and punished, Zenobia trades her helmet for a woman's headdress.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.