The Hunt is Up, Sir Thopas: Irony, Pun and Ritual.
- Author / Editor
- Greene, Richard Leighton.
The Hunt is Up, Sir Thopas: Irony, Pun and Ritual.
- Published
- Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 169-71.
- Description
- Discourages pursuit of ironic and sexual implications in details in Tho (7.748-59), suggesting that the mention of "bukke and hare" is best understood as parodic conjoining of two categories of hunted beasts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas
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