Chaucer's Constance: Womanly Virtue and the Heroic Life
- Author / Editor
- Clasby, Eugene.
Chaucer's Constance: Womanly Virtue and the Heroic Life
- Published
- Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 221-33.
- Description
- Constance is not, as Delany (1974) claims, a character who embodies and recommends self-degradation and abject submission to power in all its forms. What is important is that Constance discovers in the course of her experience that Providence, not Fortune, governs and establishes the meaning of her life.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.