Treason in the Household
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul.
Treason in the Household
- Published
- Paul Strohm, with an Appendix by A. J. Prescott. Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1992), pp. 121-44.
- Description
- The statutory redefinition of treason in 1352 and a case of domestic treason in 1387 (Elizabeth Wauton) suggest that Chaucer conceived the Wife of Bath to be a household traitor, one whose insurrections against her husbands are analogous to broader political insurgency. The documents and WBP interpenetrate and reveal late-medieval attitudes.
- Alternative Title
- Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.