'For my synne and for my yong delite': Chaucer, the 'Tale of Beryn,' and the Problem of Adolescentia
- Author / Editor
- Parsons, Ben.
'For my synne and for my yong delite': Chaucer, the 'Tale of Beryn,' and the Problem of Adolescentia
- Published
- Modern Language Review 103 (2008): 940-51.
- Description
- Not just a continuation of CT, the "Tale of Beryn" engages Chaucer's work critically. Assigned, in the anonymous Interlude, to the Merchant on the return journey, "Beryn" challenges the Clerk's notion of male adolescence as a stage of pre-identity that will lead to maturity. The sense of adolescence as a force to be controlled in "Beryn" may connect with efforts to stem Lollardy by focusing on the young and their education.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
- Clerk and His Tale