Chaucer's Bawdy Tongue.
- Author / Editor
- Braddy, Haldeen.
Chaucer's Bawdy Tongue.
- Published
- Southern Folklore Quarterly 30 (1966): 214-22.
- Description
- Assesses Chaucer's "vulgarisms" for the ways that they "reveal" his "expert insight into the uninhibited lives of the folk." Comments on Chaucer's depictions of incest, claims that Chaucer's uses 119 "bawdy terms," and focuses on his robust vocabulary of sexuality and scatology, particularly as expressed by his "lower characters."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies