The Man with Two Wives: Female Rivalry and Social Power in a Medieval Motif
- Author / Editor
- Newman, Florence.
The Man with Two Wives: Female Rivalry and Social Power in a Medieval Motif
- Published
- Cygne 2 (1996): 19-22.
- Description
- An abstract of a paper that considers ClT and Petrarch's version of the Griselda tale in comparison with "Laxdaela Saga" and Marie de France's "Le Fresne". In all, the central female figure "possesses a greater value than may at first appear."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.