'How Came That Widow In': The Dynamics of Social Conformity in Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Hooker

Author / Editor
Chamberlain, Stephanie Ericson.

Title
'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.