The Silenced Knight: Questions on Power and Reciprocity in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- McKinley, Kathryn L.
The Silenced Knight: Questions on Power and Reciprocity in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 359-78.
- Description
- The old hag's curtain lecture, which changes the knight from selfish to selfless, is made possible through the romance genre. The silence of the knight signifies "radical freedom," not the end of an "authentic personality."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.