'For to be sworne bretheren til they deye': Satirizing Queer Brotherhood in the Chaucerian Corpus
- Author / Editor
- Pugh, Tison.
'For to be sworne bretheren til they deye': Satirizing Queer Brotherhood in the Chaucerian Corpus
- Published
- Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 282-310.
- Description
- Despite abundant evidence of their being held in high regard by contemporary society, male oaths of friendship are consistently "satirized, broken, and/or ridiculed" in Chaucer's works, suggesting "an overarching distrust of such relationships" on Chaucer's part. Pugh assesses such oaths in HF, KnT, FrT, PardT, and ShT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Knight and His Tale
- Friar and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Shipman and His Tale