"Game" in The "Tale of Gamelyn."

Description: Explores multiple meanings of "game"--as transgression, violent activity, pleasure, source of food--in "Gamelyn " (which takes the place of CkT in several texts of CT). Identifies idea of boundaries (legal and social) and punning on the name of Gamelyn's father, "Boundys." Claims that Gamelyn pits "game" against" "guile," and not against "ernest," as in CT. Argues that the sense of game as "guile" recalls Pandarus's "Here bygynneth game" in TC, Book I.

Chaucer Subjects: Chaucerian Apocrypha
Language and Word Studies
Canterbury Tales--General
Troilus and Criseyde