Chaucerian Puns on "Brotel."

Author / Editor
Huseboe, Arthur R.

Title
Chaucerian Puns on "Brotel."

Published
North Dakota Quarterly 31 (1963): 35-37.

Description
Argues that in Chaucer's three uses of "brotel" and its derivatives in MerT (4. 1279, 2061, and 2241), the poet plays punningly on sexual implications of the term in addition to the primary meaning, "brittle" or "fragile."

Chaucer Subjects
Language ad Word Studies
Merchant and His Tale
Style and Versification