'Lyarde' and Goliard

Author / Editor
Reakes, Jason.

Title
'Lyarde' and Goliard

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteleilungen 83 (1982): 34-41.

Description
Presents the text of the Middle English poem, "Lyarde," discussing it in light of Goliardic satire and identifying instances where the poem shares themes with parts of CT: the "sexual superiority" of clerics (the Monk in MkP and NPE), wives' control of their sexually unsatisfactory husbands (WBP), and, more generally, the "senex amans" motif and anti-fraternal satire.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations