The Death of a Silent Woman: Voice and Power in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Raybin, David.
The Death of a Silent Woman: Voice and Power in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 95 (1996): 19-37.
- Description
- Reads ManT as a "story both of a wife who cuckolds her jealous husband and of a sexually aware trickster [the crow] who uses his knowledge, voice, and wit to gain freedom from his gilded cage." Both the wife and the crow seek freedom, but unlike the silenced wife, the crow effectively uses reasoned speech to liberate itself.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.