Chaucer's View of the Proper Treatment of Women

Author / Editor
Davenant, John.

Title
Chaucer's View of the Proper Treatment of Women

Published
Maledicta 5 (1981): 153-61.

Description
Passages from ShT and MLT suggest that men have a right to beat their wives; furthermore, MilT and passages from Mel and WBT (in the wife's marriage to Jankin) seem to suggest masochism in female characters. MkP suggests that women are naturally cold and brutal.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.