'Lyarde' and Goliard
- Author / Editor
- Reakes, Jason.
'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