Chaucer's Costume Rhetoric in His Portrait of the Prioress

Author / Editor
Hodges, Laura F.

Title
Chaucer's Costume Rhetoric in His Portrait of the Prioress

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1985): 1620A

Description
The headdress, cloak, and jewelry of the Prioress, correct or appropriate according to fourteenth-century views, conflict ironically with her character.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.