A Late Fifteenth-Century Woman's Revision of Chaucer's 'Against Women Unconstant' and Other Poems by the Same Hand
- Author / Editor
- Mooney, Linne R.
A Late Fifteenth-Century Woman's Revision of Chaucer's 'Against Women Unconstant' and Other Poems by the Same Hand
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34 (2000): 344-49, 2000.
- Description
- A copy of William Caxton's first edition of "Dictes or Sayeingis of the Philosophres" (1477) contains three hand-written poems on the flyleaf. One of these, Chaucer's Wom Unc, has been rewritten, perhaps by a woman, to suggest that men may be just as guilty of infidelity as women are: the gender in the first two lines is reversed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Against Women Unconstant.
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