Imagining Chaucer’s Male Audience

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article seeks to reconcile the characterizations of Chaucer’s voice and implied male audience encapsulated in Derek Pearsall’s “London club culture” and Carissa Harris’s “felawe masculinity.” I propose that these labels serve as complementary descriptors whose points of intersection reveal Chaucer as a poet for whom educating men about gender and masculinity mattered greatly.