Chaucer on Wildness: The Host, the Monk, and the Tragedy of Cenobia.
- Author / Editor
- Griffith, John Lance.
Chaucer on Wildness: The Host, the Monk, and the Tragedy of Cenobia.
- Published
- Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 24 (2016): 75-95.
- Description
- Examines Chaucer's concepts of wild and wilderness in MkT and argues that the Monk's inclusion of Cenobia is in response to the Host's comments about his own wife. This exchange is a mediation on "reccheless-ness," a wildness of character that can manifest both as virtue and as vice in an individual and the community.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
Language and Word Studies