Dorigen: Marriage Model or Male Fantasy
- Author / Editor
- Luecke, Janemarie.
Dorigen: Marriage Model or Male Fantasy
- Published
- Journal of Women's Studies in Literature 1 (1979): 107-21.
- Description
- FranT, although a declared romance, has been judged almost universally by real-life standards of conduct in marriage. Two real-life women of Chaucer's period, Margaret Paston and Christine de Pizan, provide a standard of conduct in their own writings. In comparison to them, Dorigen is neither an adult person nor one capable of any willed action. And Arveragus is delineated as a suitable husband.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.