Chaucer's Audience and the Henpecked Husband

Author / Editor
Boyd, Beverly.

Title
Chaucer's Audience and the Henpecked Husband

Published
Florilegium 12 (1993): 177-80.

Description
Chaucer's frequent references to nagging wives and henpecked husbands have less to do with his personal views than with his awareness of audience; women as well as men could share the misogynistic joke because in Pauline theory the shrew was "some other woman."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism