"Cosyn" and "Cosynage": Complicated Punning in Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Fisher, Ruth M.
"Cosyn" and "Cosynage": Complicated Punning in Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 168-70.
- Description
- Adduces precedents in French for Chaucer's punning in ShT on "cosyn" and its derivatives to mean "harlot" as well as "prospective victim," part of a larger pattern of "mocking irony" in his various uses of the words.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale
Language and Word Studies