"Out, Harrow" and "Alas!": Chaucer, Shouts and Narrative.

Author / Editor
Phillips, Helen.

Title
"Out, Harrow" and "Alas!": Chaucer, Shouts and Narrative.

Published
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 36-51.

Description
Addresses shouting in Chaucer's narratives, focusing on "the hue and cry," which, "strikingly frequent," engages "with questions about the reliability of narratives, and also with problems of rape and sexual consent, misogynistic narratives and fictions of social class." Surveys cries of alarm and exclamations of misdeeds in Chaucer's works, with particular attention to NPT, MilT, RvT, and PrT.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Miiller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale