Women in Chaucer's Works

Author / Editor
Ando, Shinsuke.

Title
Women in Chaucer's Works

Published
The Images of Women in English Renaissance Literature, ed. by Institute of Renaissance Studies. Renaissance Library, vol. 13 (Tokyo, 1982), pp. 51-75.

Description
Examines descriptions and narratives of Chaucerian women and the developments of the poet's creative genius from the formal rhetorical representations of the stereotypes in his early works to the splendidly mature idiosyncratic women in CT. Discusses Chaucer's view of marriage, feminism, irony, and humor and his genius for parody.
In Japanese.

Contributor
Institute of Renaissance Studies (Tokyo), ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.