"Compassion and benignytee": A Reassessment of the Relationship between Canacee and the Falcon in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Squire's Tale."

Author / Editor
Elmes, Melissa Ridley.

Title
"Compassion and benignytee": A Reassessment of the Relationship between Canacee and the Falcon in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Squire's Tale."

Published
Medieval Feminist Forum 54.1 (2018): 50-64.

Description
Reviews the scholarship concerning the bond between Canacee and the falcon in SqT and argues that this posthumanist bond "derives from their femaleness, which for the tale-teller transcends species in favor of a gendered sameness borne of similar experiences; in particular, female experiences with figures of the opposite sex."

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale