Inept Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Frank, Robert Worth,Jr.
Inept Chaucer
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 5-14.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucerians should assess more explicitly the consequences of critical readings: for instance, interpreting Alison of Bath as a murderer or Criseyde as having an incestuous affair with Pandarus.
- Alternative Title
- The Presidential Address. The New Chaucer Society, Sixth International Congress, August 9-11, 1988. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.