Chaucer's Puns.

Author / Editor
Baum, Paull F.

Title
Chaucer's Puns.

Published
PMLA 71 (1956): 225-46.

Description
Recounts the scholarly tally of puns in Chaucer, locates the device in rhetorical tradition, and clarifies its wide range of stylistic effects. Then provides an alphabetical list of puns in Chaucer's works (more than 100), both previously known examples and ones newly identified. Supplemented in PMLA 73 (1958): 167-70.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification