Dido, Emily, and Constance: Femininity and Subversion in the Mature Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Russell, J. Stephen.
Dido, Emily, and Constance: Femininity and Subversion in the Mature Chaucer
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 1 (1988, for 1986): 65-74.
- Description
- Chaucer's Dido, Emelye, and Custance differ from their respective literary ancestors. In each case, Chaucer gives to his heroine a significant speech or set of speeches that subverts the narrative in which she appears, counterpointing the dominant ideology of the given tale or its genre.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.