Teaching the Genders of Medieval Romance with Parodies: A Case Study Featuring Guerin's 'Long-Assed Berenger,' Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas,' and 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'

Author / Editor
Pugh, Tison.

Title
Teaching the Genders of Medieval Romance with Parodies: A Case Study Featuring Guerin's 'Long-Assed Berenger,' Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas,' and 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'

Published
SMART 16.2 (2009): 111-25.

Description
Pugh explores opportunities for defining gender conventions of romance by examining parodies: knightly masculinity in Guerin's "Long-Assed Berenger" and in Th, and gender construction in episodes from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas