Queer Times: Richard II in the Poems and Chronicles of Late-Fourteenth Century England.

Author / Editor
Federico, Sylvia.

Title
Queer Times: Richard II in the Poems and Chronicles of Late-Fourteenth Century England.

Published
Medium Aevum 79.1 (2010): 25-46.

Description
Includes discussion of MilT, arguing that it "participates in the scandalous discourse on the perceived problem of Richard II's deviant sexuality," reading the scene of the hot coulter as an echo of the sodomitical execution of Edward II that engages attention to Richard by means of the name "Absolon."

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Language and Word Studies