Chaucer: Realism or Obscenity?

Author / Editor
Braddy, Haldeen.

Title
Chaucer: Realism or Obscenity?

Published
Arlington Quarterly 2.1 (1969): 121-38.

Description
Argues that Chaucer is "multivoiced" and a "realist par excellence" whose "verism . . . encompasses minor elements like obscenity and bawdry." Draws examples from TC and CT, WBPT most extensively.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General
Wife of Bath and Her Tale