"Double-Entendres" in "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Sanders, Barry Roy.

Title
"Double-Entendres" in "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (1967): 1058A.

Description
Surveys scholarship concerning Chaucer's word-play, describes the place of "double-entendre" in rhetorical tradition, and explicates 204 of Chaucer's word-plays in CT, concluding that there is some correlation between punning and the bawdy tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Canterbury Tales--General