The Performance of Gender in the Prioress
- Author / Editor
- Hahn, Thomas.
The Performance of Gender in the Prioress
- Published
- Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 11-34.
- Description
- Examines PrT and the Prioress's sketch in GP as reflexes of gender performance and the historical conditions that shaped such performances. The anti-Semitism of her tale results from her suppression of her "bodiliness," represented in a fetishizing of human waste.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.