Marriage and the 'Second Nun's Tale'

Author / Editor
Glasser, Marc D.

Title
Marriage and the 'Second Nun's Tale'

Published
Tennessee Studies in Literature 23 (1978): 1-14.

Description
Contrary to Donald Howard, who found in SNT the church's "highest ideal" of marriage and Chaucer's final answer to the Marriage Group, the tale actually denies the basis of true wedlock as subordinating the wife's personal concern for her husband to selfless dedication to spiritual "bisyness."

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.