Some Pious Talk about Marriage: Two Speeches from the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
Some Pious Talk about Marriage: Two Speeches from the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Robert R. Edwards and Vickie Ziegler, eds. Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1995), pp. 111-27.
- Description
- Examines the encomium on marriage in MerT and the speech on marital values in FranT. In their structural placements and their relations with their sources, the speeches do not so much critique or assert specific views on marriage as represent doctrine against which the actions of the "Tales" are posed.
- The speeches are theory; the tales are practice.
- Contributor
- Ziegler, Vickie,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.