The Distorting Glass: Literary Representations of Women in the English Renaissance
- Author / Editor
- Bourner, Paula Christine.
The Distorting Glass: Literary Representations of Women in the English Renaissance
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 2559A.
- Description
- Although Chaucer and Christine de Pisan showed themselves well aware of the distorting mirror of gender constructions by men, the Renaissance produced even more misogynist views, especially in Jacobean domestic tragedy. Shakespeare, however, recognized "masculinist paranoia."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.