Weeping like a Beaten Child: Figurative Language and the Emotions in Chaucer and Malory.

Author / Editor
Trigg, Stephanie.

Title
Weeping like a Beaten Child: Figurative Language and the Emotions in Chaucer and Malory.

Published
Glenn D. Burger and Holly A. Crocker, eds. Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 25-46.

Description
Highlights the connections between uses of the phrase “weeping like a beaten child” in both Chaucer and Malory, simultaneously exploring the semantic range of weeping elsewhere. These examinations offer further important lessons about the history of emotions and how one might read weeping in old texts.

Alternative Title
Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations