The Woman's Song in Middle English and Its European Backgrounds
- Author / Editor
- Plummer, John F.
The Woman's Song in Middle English and Its European Backgrounds
- Published
- Vox Feminae: Studies in Medieval Woman's Songs (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, 1981), pp. 135-54.
- Description
- In the character of Absolon in MilT, Chaucer exploits the literary fact that "the minor orders were not taken seriously as lovers, but were found precisely in the burlesque world of the 'fabliau'." The willfulness and sexual appetite of the Wife of Bath derive directly from antifeminist traditions.
- Alternative Title
- Vox Feminae: Studies in Medieval Woman's Songs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.