Chaucer's Cunning: An Incarnational Pun and an Omission in the "Middle English Dictionary."

Author / Editor
Dutton, Marsha L.

Title
Chaucer's Cunning: An Incarnational Pun and an Omission in the "Middle English Dictionary."

Published
Chaucer Review 53.1 (2018): 36-59.

Description
Examines the word "cunning," omission of its sexual connotations in the MED, and the ways in which Chaucer puns on the word in previously unconsidered sexual contexts.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies