'How Came That Widow In': The Dynamics of Social Conformity in Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Hooker
- Author / Editor
- Chamberlain, Stephanie Ericson.
'How Came That Widow In': The Dynamics of Social Conformity in Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Hooker
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2691A.
- Description
- In the flux that overturned feudal patriarchal society, the position of the widow was destabilized; the social station of Chaucer's Criseyde contrasts with that of Shakespeare's Cressida, as well as that of widows in other Renaissance works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.