'The Canterbury Tales' Women Narrators: Three Traditions of Female Authority

Author / Editor
Sturges, Robert S.

Title
'The Canterbury Tales' Women Narrators: Three Traditions of Female Authority

Published
Modern Language Studies 13:2 (1983): 41-51.

Description
Women narrators--Wife of Bath, Prioress, and Second Nun--seek either earthly or spiritual authority over men in CT and establish female poetic tradition, invoking powerful females archetypes.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.
Second Nun and Her Tale.